Vice President J.D. Vance is pushing back hard against what he says is a deliberately misleading media narrative after headlines exploded this week claiming Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a 5-year-old child in Minnesota.
According to Vance, the viral framing of the story is not just wrong, it is designed to inflame public outrage and undermine immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.
The controversy erupted after ICE agents arrested a man during a targeted enforcement operation in Columbia Heights, just outside Minneapolis. Local officials and activists quickly claimed that ICE “detained” the man’s 5-year-old son, igniting protests and breathless media coverage across the country.
Vance addressed the uproar directly while traveling to Minnesota on Thursday, saying the initial reports deeply disturbed him until he reviewed the facts himself.
“I actually saw this terrible story while I was coming to Minneapolis,” Vance said. “I see this story, and I am a father of a 5-year-old — a 5-year-old little boy — and I think to myself, oh my God, this is terrible. How did we arrest a 5-year-old?”
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