While pitching his mass-deportation campaign to the American people, Donald Trump famously pledged to first go after “the worst of the worst.” Just this week, the president defended his administration’s brutal and deadly tactics in Minneapolis, telling NBC News that while the administration’s agents “could use a little bit of a softer touch,” they still “have to be tough,” because “we’re dealing with really hard criminals.”

That’s why the Trump administration is prioritizing the deportation of real threats to public safety … like that 5-year-old boy in a bunny hat. Liam Conejo Ramos’s photo went viral last month when masked ICE agents sent him and his father to a Texas detention center, though people at the scene begged them to leave the boy with his mother in Minneapolis. Now, lawyers for the federal government have filed........

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