Two students from Minnesota elementary enter federal custody after mother detained

Two students at Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights, Minn., were taken into federal custody on Thursday after their mother was detained and asked school officials to bring the boys to her, the school’s principal, Jason Kuhlman, said. Kuhlman said he received a message from the boys’ mother while they were in class and drove the second grader and the fifth grader to the B.H.

Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis at her request. At the 570‑student school, he said, about 25 families have had a parent or direct caregiver detained in the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps in the Twin Cities. School staff packed the boys’ backpacks with snacks and paperwork for the roughly 25‑minute drive, and a nurse walked them into the building.

Kuhlman said the fifth grader began to cry as they were escorted past armed guards and through security; in the waiting area Scooby Doo played on the television. An agent later took the boys through a locked door, and Kuhlman said they were flown that night to a federal detention center in Texas.

The episode follows the detention of 5‑year‑old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was taken on Jan. 20 and is being held in a federal center in Dilley, Texas along with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, the article said. Department of Homeland Security officials said they were pursuing Mr.

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