White House, DHS push back on claims ICE targeted 5-year-old in Minnesota, say child was 'abandoned'

Valletta · Thursday at 2:51 PM

"ICE did NOT target a child. The child was ABANDONED," Homeland Security wrote on X on Thursday. "On January 20, ICE conducted a targeted operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, an illegal alien from Ecuador who was RELEASED into the U.S. by the Biden administration."
"As agents approached the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias fled on foot — abandoning his child. For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias," it added.

White House, DHS push back on claims ICE targeted 5-year-old in Minnesota, say child was 'abandoned'

The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that "ICE did NOT target a child" in Minnesota after Democrats alleged the 5-year-old had been arrested.

www.foxnews.com

There are SO many similar stories. In this case Vice President Vance read about the child on his way to Minneapolis. Vance also has a five-year-old, read the disturbing story, and researched it himself. Thus he was able to get the facts out when asked about it by the press just hours later. The original fake news stories, misleading the public, are typical of the stories put out by Governor Walz and the media. And sometimes by the time the facts get out such tales become gospel for anti-administration activists.

Maria Billingsley · Friday at 9:26 AM

Valletta said:
"ICE did NOT target a child. The child was ABANDONED," Homeland Security wrote on X on Thursday. "On January 20, ICE conducted a targeted operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, an illegal alien from Ecuador who was RELEASED into the U.S. by the Biden administration."
"As agents approached the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias fled on foot — abandoning his child. For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias," it added.

White House, DHS push back on claims ICE targeted 5-year-old in Minnesota, say child was 'abandoned'

The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that "ICE did NOT target a child" in Minnesota after Democrats alleged the 5-year-old had been arrested.

www.foxnews.com

There are SO many similar stories. In this case Vice President Vance read about the child on his way to Minneapolis. Vance also has a five-year-old, read the disturbing story, and researched it himself. Thus he was able to get the facts out when asked about it by the press just hours later. The original fake news stories, misleading the public, are typical of the stories put out by Governor Walz and the media. And sometimes by the time the facts get out such tales become gospel for anti-administration activists.

They can push back all they want but, truth be told....

ICE used the child to draw out the mother from her home. She made a choice to stay inside because her husband instructed her to do so as their 13 year son was on his way home from school and needed to be protected and cared for. No abandonment here. She did the right thing in order to protect her older child. If this administration follows the law, her small child will be back in her custody very soon.
Let us reason. Please.

Tropical Wilds · Friday at 9:37 AM

When we get to the part where we justify a government agency using a child as bait, we have entered the practices of Germany, 1930s.

Valletta · Friday at 10:05 AM

Maria Billingsley said:
They can push back all they want but, truth be told....

ICE used the child to draw out the mother from her home. She made a choice to stay inside because her husband instructed her to do so as their 13 year son was on his way home from school and needed to be protected and cared for. No abandonment here. She did the right thing in order to protect her older child. If this administration follows the law, her small child will be back in her custody very soon.
Let us reason. Please.

The truth is the father left the child in the car, which was running, and ran away. That's abandonment. Agitators showed up blowing horns. ICE played music for the child who was frightened because of the noise of the agitators. They fed the child. ICE caught the father. Witnesses said the father yelled not to open the house door. People have claimed the mother was in the house., but no one would open the door. Multiple people said they would take the child. ICE cannot legally turn over a child to unauthorized adults, they need the consent of a parent or a guardian. The father did not authorize anyone else to take his child, he requested the child be kept with him. ICE followed the law and the child, according to the last reports I have seen, is still in Texas as is his father.

Oompa Loompa · Friday at 6:31 PM

Tropical Wilds said:
When we get to the part where we justify a government agency using a child as bait, we have entered the practices of Germany, 1930s.

Using a Child as bait? Oh do tell.

Valletta · Friday at 8:16 PM

Sadly Homeland Security has seen parents abandon their children over and over, it happened many times at the border.

Tropical Wilds · Friday at 9:02 PM

Oompa Loompa said:
Using a Child as bait? Oh do tell.

If you’re not informed with the incident, I’m not sure why you expect to contribute to a discussion on it.

Oompa Loompa · Friday at 9:07 PM

Tropical Wilds said:
If you’re not informed with the incident, I’m not sure why you expect to contribute to a discussion on it.

Please, explain how the child was used as "bait?" Educate me.

ThatRobGuy · Friday at 9:29 PM

The child wasn't used as bait.

The people saying that are the types who hop on Facebook and make insufferable posts like

"Repeat after me:

the

cruelty

is

the

point"

When the father took off and left his kid in a running vehicle, had they just all left the scene and done nothing, there would've still been complaints of "why didn't they take care of the child, they just abandoned a kid in a running vehicle"

When the mother inside the house refused to take custody of the child, and neighbors were trying to claim "I'll take him", had they done that, it would've been "they scared off his dad, and then left him in the custody of some random person in the neighborhood, can you believe that?!?!"

What's the ideal situation here? "As long as you have a kid, the rules don't apply"?

Oompa Loompa · Friday at 9:34 PM

ThatRobGuy said:
The child wasn't used as bait.

The people saying that are the types who hop on Facebook and make insufferable posts like

"Repeat after me: the cruelty is the point"

When the father took off and left his kid in a running vehicle, had they just all left the scene and done nothing, there would've still been complaints of "why didn't they take care of the child, they just abandoned a kid in a running vehicle"

When the mother inside the house refused to take custody of the child, and neighbors were trying to claim "I'll take him", had they done that, it would've been "they scared off his dad, and then left him in the custody of some random person in the neighborhood, can you believe that?!?!"

What's the ideal situation here? "As long as you have a kid, the rules don't apply"?

I am interested in @Tropical Wilds and her superior understanding of the story to explain it to me. After all, I am apparently too uninformed about the incident to contribute to the discussion. So hopefully this will be a learning experience for me.

Palmfever · Friday at 9:34 PM

Oompa Loompa said:
Please, explain how the child was used as "bait?" Educate me.

Tropical Wilds said:
When we get to the part where we justify a government agency using a child as bait, we have entered the practices of Germany, 1930s.

Media runs wild with ‘egregious lie’ ICE targeted 5-year-old in Minnesota, DHS says child was abandoned

The media was quick to parrot Democrats, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who shared an image of a five-year-old boy and claimed he was detained by ICE.

www.foxnews.com

BPPLEE · Friday at 9:45 PM

In another post, DHS wrote: "Our officers made multiple attempts to get the mother inside the house to take custody of her child. Officers even assured her that they would NOT take her into custody. She refused to accept custody of the child. The father told officers he wanted the child to remain with him. Our officers' primary concern during the entire operation was the safety and welfare of the child. Following the mother’s abandonment of the child, officers abided by the father’s wishes to keep the child with him. Father and son are together at Dilley [Immigration Processing Center]."

Landon Caeli · Friday at 9:48 PM

Soooo... A whole lot of commotion by the left wing media about nothing basically.

BPPLEE · Friday at 9:52 PM

Landon Caeli said:
Soooo... A whole lot of commotion by the left wing media about nothing basically.

Not to mention some of our friends on CF

Tropical Wilds · Saturday at 8:46 AM

Oompa Loompa said:
I am interested in @Tropical Wilds and her superior understanding of the story to explain it to me. After all, I am apparently too uninformed about the incident to contribute to the discussion. So hopefully this will be a learning experience for me.

This level of self awareness becomes you.

Happily, the child has been reunited with his mother after working out a safe, neutral means for the mother and child to be reunited, as opposed to having the abductors of her husband use the child to lure their mother out of hiding, especially given as there are other children she is caring for.

Still waiting to hear the grounds for abducting the father, though, as it has been confirmed he was not here illegally nor in violation of any of his directives.

Oompa Loompa · Saturday at 10:01 AM

Tropical Wilds said:
This level of self awareness becomes you.

Happily, the child has been reunited with his mother after working out a safe, neutral means for the mother and child to be reunited, as opposed to having the abductors of her husband use the child to lure their mother out of hiding, especially given as there are other children she is caring for.

Still waiting to hear the grounds for abducting the father, though, as it has been confirmed he was not here illegally nor in violation of any of his directives.

So they used the child as bait to lure the mother out of hiding so the child can be reunited with her? I dont know. It sounds to me like the only thing being used as bait was your comment.

Landon Caeli · Saturday at 10:21 AM

BPPLEE said:
Not to mention some of our friends on CF

Your post was exceptionally more polite than what mine could ever be. I admire your integrity.

Tropical Wilds · Saturday at 11:27 AM

Oh hey, they executed somebody else today. But yes, let’s pretend the people standing up against it are the problem.

Tropical Wilds · Saturday at 11:29 AM

Oompa Loompa said:
So they used the child as bait to lure the mother out of hiding so the child can be reunited with her? I dont know. It sounds to me like the only thing being used as bait was your comment.

And January 6th was a parade.

BPPLEE · Saturday at 12:15 PM

https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/2015085732524622000

This is where the five-year-old was taken after he was “arrested” by ICE. Does this look like abuse to you or does the abuse happen by the parents who abandoned their children?

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