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How can you look at 5-year-old Liam Ramos' eyes and think this is OK?

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23.01.2026

When President Donald Trump promised Americans a new Golden Age, I didn’t expect it would involve low-rent-mall-cop Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nabbing angel-faced 5-year-old children off the streets of Midwestern cities and using them as bait.

But here we are, in the America that, I assume, Republicans wanted. If you haven’t seen pictures of little Liam Conejo Ramos, bundled against the winter cold in a blue bunny hat, a tiny backpack over his plaid coat, you have a moral obligation to find one and look at it closely.

Liam was nabbed Jan. 20 by masked ICE agents continuing their terror campaign across Minnesota. The 5-year-old is a student at Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights, just north of Minneapolis.

Columbia Heights Superintendent Zena Stenvik said masked agents descended on Liam and his father as they were returning to their home from the boy's school.

“Another adult living in the home was outside and........

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