The video presents a personal account of an ICE arrest that took place at a family's home in Minnesota, focusing on the trauma experienced by the child who witnessed the detention of a parent. Speaker C recounts being approached by an ICE agent demanding the presence of her husband, the subsequent arrest, and the lasting emotional effects on her son, who now requires therapy. The segment also references a widely circulated image of Liam Conejo Ramos, a detained individual, using it as a visual symbol of the broader issue. Speaker D concludes with a call to break the silence surrounding such incidents, urging viewers not to remain passive observers.
Immigrant children.
Liam Conejo Ramos is back at home in Minnesota after being detained by ICE agents earlier this year. You may remember an image of Liam.
This image, in fact, really has captured—
So that day, I was coming home from dropping off my daughter at school. I had just pulled into my driveway. My sister-in-law was with me at the time. We saw a car pull behind us. Once I got out of my car, An ICE agent approached me and said, hey, you know, I'm a federal officer with ICE and I'm looking for your husband. I immediately told him, you know, he's not here. He was like, okay, well, I need you to call him. I need him to show up here. He has a removal order. Basically told him, hey, I'm not going to call him. I'm going to reach out to an attorney to kind of figure out what my next steps are. He said, okay, you can do that, but you have like You have 5 minutes to do it. If not, you have to come with us. My son was present at the time when, when they arrested me, so definitely that has impacted him a lot. You know, he's never gonna forget that. So seeing me in handcuffs and all of that, he's never gonna forget that. So that has definitely impacted him. He is going to therapy. It's emotionally draining. It's just traumatizing for them. you have your parent, one of your parents, and then the next day they're not there. So I feel like that's something that really impacts them in school, at home, because they're not there anymore. No matter what, they're gonna be thinking about the situation. So that's still, that's definitely there.
We've all seen something and said nothing.
We told ourselves it wasn't ours to say. It was. It always was. This is immigration enforcement. A parent taken in the morning. A child who sees everything, then is expected to just move on, go to school, sleep that night. Children remember the knock, the fear, who was taken, and who said nothing. No child should have to carry that, and we should never become comfortable watching it happen.
