Media runs wild with ‘egregious lie’ ICE targeted 5-year-old in Minnesota, DHS says child was abandoned

Legacy news outlets ran wild with misleading claims from Minnesota Democrats that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained a child during an enforcement operation, illustrating how viral media "hoaxes" begin, according to watchdogs. 

Media outlets were quick to parrot Democrats, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who shared an image of a five-year-old boy named Liam Ramos and claimed he was detained by ICE while coming home from pre-school in Minneapolis.