This week, we saw the sad images of an immigrant child in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials crying by a car in Minnesota. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) immediately and wrongly claimed that he was detained after returning home from school.
Online, friends of mine were posting images of the boy, enraged that he was separated from his loving father. Some suggested the child was being used as a prop for officials to “lure” his family out and into federal custody, with the outraged saying “an innocent minor should not be used as bait.”
Department of Homeland Security officials claimed later on X that the child was not a target, but his father was. In the statement, they said,
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