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ICE Used a 5-Year-Old as Bait. Trump and Vance Defended It. - Decoding The Rhetoric
A five-year-old boy was taken from a running car in his own driveway, forced to knock on his own door to see who was inside, and then transported more than 1,000 miles to an ICE detention center in Texas.
ICE claimed the child was “abandoned.”
JD Vance publicly defended the action, asking whether ICE should have let the child “freeze to death.”
Eyewitnesses, school officials, and the family’s attorney say that narrative is false.
In this video, we break down what actually happened, the contradictions in the official story, and why this case has sparked outrage across Minnesota and beyond. - 01/23/2026.