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The cruelty is the point as those doing it the right way are being rounded up.
A 10-year-old girl from Spokane, Washington went to school one morning and ended up detained by ICE and sent to a detention center in Texas with her father — despite an active asylum case and no criminal record.

On January 9, Karla Tiul Baltazar was dropped off at Logan Elementary. Minutes later her father, Arnoldo Tiul Caal, was stopped by Border Patrol, taken into custody, and separated from her — all while complying with regular immigration check-ins and holding a valid work permit and Social Security number.

After hours of waiting and fear, agents allowed him to pick her up from school, then coerced him into signing “voluntary departure” paperwork under threat of separation.

The next day they were both detained again, loaded onto a bus, and sent more than a thousand miles to the South Texas family detention center in Dilley, where they now await a court date in March.

This isn’t a glitch. Karla is one of roughly 1,700 children currently in U.S. immigration custody since family detention facilities reopened last year — turning classrooms into cages and school desks into detention beds.

In Columbia Heights, Minnesota, agents detained at least four children, including a five-year-old boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, as he returned from preschool with his father. School officials say ICE used that five-year-old “as bait” to try to get adults to open their home during a raid.

These are not isolated incidents. This escalation is part of a broader federal enforcement campaign that has swept up students, parents, and everyday community members — in school zones, in driveways, and on street corners — typically without warrants or clear justification.

Some districts report multiple child detentions in recent weeks alone as fear keeps students from attending class and parents from leaving the house.

Let’s be blunt: this is state power wielded against families seeking safety. Compliance with the legal process is no safeguard.

Valid papers save no one from being yanked from their life, sent to a facility far from home, and left to navigate a complex legal labyrinth with trauma as their only travel companion.

A nation that proclaims itself a refuge must not terrorize children to make a point or to “do its job.” Karla Tiul Baltazar should be in her classroom in Spokane. Liam Conejo Ramos should be safe at home after preschool.

This is cruelty. It’s urgent. And it demands immediate moral and political reckoning.
 
Gee Wally, what could it possibly be?

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