What Happens After a Child Is Taken Into ICE Custody?

ICE’s detention of five-year-old preschooler Liam Ramos in the Minneapolis area on Tuesday has sparked questions about the legality of federal immigration agents detaining children—and what happens when they do.

Ramos, one of four students in the Columbia Heights Public School District who have recently been detained amid the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown in the area, is far from the only child who has been taken into ICE custody in the past year. An analysis of ICE data...