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Four students of the school district of Columbia Heights, in the north of Minneapolis, including a five-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl, They were detained in the last two weeks by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, according to information collected this Wednesday by local authorities.
The district superintendent, Zena Stenvik, ireported in a press conference that The minor was arrested along with his father at the entrance to his home after returning from the preschool center he attends every day.
Stenvik indicated that agents have toured neighborhoods, surrounded schools, followed buses and detained students at different times of the day, generating fear and concern among families and teachers.
“The sense of security in our community and around our schools is shaken and our hearts are broken,” he said.
Two 17 year old students
Those arrested also include a 17 year old high school student arrested on the way to school, a student of the same age detained along with her mother last week and a 10 year old student arrested while walking to school with her mother two weeks ago.
The families of the minors have active asylum cases y none had a deportation order.
The immigration authorities have not commented on these arrests, but one day before they were made public, the head of the border patrol, Gregg Bovinoassured the press that ICE will not leave Minneapolis despite the wave of rejection manifested in repeated protests, justifying their stay by saying that they focus on detaining undocumented people with a criminal record.
After Renee Good, a 37-year-old American woman, was shot and killed by an immigration agent in early January, tensions between the President’s Administration, Donald Trump, and the Democratic governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, have intensified, leading to mutual complaints in different courts, arguing between excesses of federal agents or the intervention of local authorities in their operations.