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That is true, but if the father was in the U.S. illegally, it is not evident because a judge ordered the father and son be released a couple of days ago. Likely ICE had no real evidence to present to the judge for arresting and holding them. Assumptions about people are not evidence or proof. "Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and returned home to Minneapolis, a day after a court order mandated their release." ICE releases 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from custody

What you claim is completely false. According to this news report he was in the U.S. legally. quote An Ecuadorian father and his young son who were detained by immigration authorities this week in Columbia Heights entered the country legally and were following the proper steps to seek asylum, an immigration attorney said on Thursday. “They did everything right when they came in,” attorney Marc Prokosch said during a news conference on Thursday. According to Prokosch, Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, entered the country at the Brownsville, Texas, port of entry in 2024 and used the CBP One app to declare their intent to seek asylum in the United States and set an appointment with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. “They have shared all of their information with the government, and they were following the process,” Prokosch said. “They were just trying to secure safety from persecution for their family from their home country.” unquote Lawyer: Father, 5-year-old son detained in Columbia Heights were legal asylum-seekers - KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News

"The Latest The outcry against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has grown further since local officials said agents detained a five-year-old boy and his father in the Minneapolis area on Tuesday. The lawyer representing the family of preschooler Liam Conejo Ramos says the family entered the U.S. lawfully to seek asylum. The Columbia Heights Public Schools superintendent said officers told the boy to knock on the door to his home, "essentially using a five-year-old as bait." Earlier today, U.S. Vice-President JD Vance denied the child was arrested, saying officers had been targeting his father. Minnesota has become a major focus of immigration sweeps by federal U.S. agencies, prompting widespread protests — especially following the shooting death of Renee Good on Jan. 7." CLARIFICATION — Jan. 30, 2026: This story has been updated to describe the boy's capture by ICE agents as detainment rather than arrest. ICE's detention of a 5-year-old in Minneapolis sparked fresh outcry. Here's how it unfolded quote As they did after the death of Renee Good, local and state officials characterized the federal detention of a five-year-old boy differently today. The Trump administration, represented by Vice-President JD Vance on a visit to Minneapolis, said the boy was detained because his father — who Vance described as an "illegal alien" — left him behind in the bitter Minnesota cold as he fled ICE agents. School district officials, the family's lawyer and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey were unanimous in their condemnation of the preschooler's detention, just one of four involving students in recent weeks, according to school officials. Images of the boy, wearing an oversized blue tuque with ear flaps and a Spider-Man backpack, provoked a public outcry. In separate remarks, Vance and Frey said they agreed state and federal officials need to better co-operate with one another on what, on the surface, was a shared goal: making cities safe. The issue lies in their different view on who poses a danger. The vice-president today said the federal presence in Minnesota is only as large as it is because "far-left agitators" have endangered immigration enforcement officers in the course of their work. Frey has said it's the Trump administration sowing chaos by flooding the city with federal officers who are detaining people who "have done nothing wrong." "This is more about political retaliation. This is more about, tragically, terrorizing people than it is about safety, than it is even about immigration," Frey said. Teachers were non-partisan in speaking about five-year-old Liam — a preschooler who they say is missed by his classmates — and their hope for a path forward. They said students just want to get back to school and staff would like to get back to teaching. unquote ICE's detention of a 5-year-old in Minneapolis sparked fresh outcry. Here's how it unfolded Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old boy taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, is now sick, sleeping a lot and asking for his mom, according to his family and lawmakers who have visited him. Liam and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, drew national attention when they were taken by ICE last week. The viral image of the young boy wearing a blue, bunny-ear hat and a Spider-Man backpack during his father’s detainment has only further fueled the outrage in Minnesota and nationwide over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Representatives Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett, both Democrats from Texas, visited Liam and his father Wednesday at a detention facility, the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. Both lawmakers reported being alarmed by the child’s condition and are demanding his release. Liam Conejo Ramos, 5-year-old detained by ICE in viral moment, is now sick and asking for his mom in detention center | The Independent

That is liberal ideology. Every crime has an excuse for it and the criminal is not responsible.

Pure BS.

You think liberal hooey is better? I'll go with our historic Judeo-Christian belief system which much of our system was based on before liberals changed it. I think a woman just got 2 years for killing someone while drunk driving.

You did not explain what your point is in giving those verse references. I can only assume you are trying to make what some verse in the Bible say look unjustly harsh. If you take verses out of context like that and look at them alone, of course they look harsh. But you need to study the context to understand what they are all about. God has a purpose for everything under the sun and He is God. Luke 19:14-27 KJV is explained in a KJV Bible commentary as follows: "Christ's first coming was as Saviour; but when He returns, it will be as Judge. False professors and Christ-rejectors will alike be cast away (vss. 26-27)." The KJV commentary explains it this way: "Men that sigh and that cry over the evil taking place indicate by their actions that they are righteous ones. They are marked to be spared from destruction. We may assume that when the actual slaughter took place in 586 B.C., God providentially spared the righteous. Jeremiah would be an example of this (Jer 40:1-4). vs. 8-11 explains: "Great carnage had been carried out as a recompense for their shedding of blood, perversion, and idol worship; but good news was given concerning the remnant. Those marked (vs. 4) had not been touched, even as commanded *vss, 6, 11). KJV commentary says this: 10-18 "And they burnt all their cities. The command of God to burn and kill here has bothered many throughout history. But several factors must be kept in mind. First, the order came from the righteous Judge of the earth Himself. He was fully aware of all the circumstances and consequences involved at the time of the command. Second, Israel was fighting for its very survival, and often that meant to kill or be killed. Third, the moral habits of some of these desert people were almost unimaginable in their degeneration." 19:1 to 21:25 is all about the immorality of the Gibeonites and Benjamites. Just because evil events done by certain people are recorded in the Bible does not mean God authorized or approved of it. You have to understand the context. Some events are historical in nature. It does take some time and study to understand these things. Again this is a verse that needs to be understood in its context. It cannot be understood alone. Many verse in the Bible cannot be understood alone. You must study the context. Sometimes, Bible commentaries help if you find a good one. Sometimes you can find the explanation by doing a search on the internet. The verse 1 Samuel 15:3 Saul was given a specific command to "smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all". This may have been a part of God's deliverance of his people. One would have to spend some time to study this to learn the exact meaning of the chapter. Sometimes you can read a chapter or book of the Bible and understand the book or most of it yourself without a commentary.

With Liberals everything is show. Smoke and mirrors. No real progress.

Your liberal soft on crime justice system has proven a total failure. You have nothing to offer. Canadians have suffered enough.

No, there are a few things that make sense in China. Guess you don't understand crime deserves punishment.

Awww. So is it fair to say God is a right-wing conservative? His boy seems a lot more like a hippy. Even China has more sense than Canada on some things. China executed 11 members of a gang that was involved in a billion dollar online scam and murdering people. It sounds like China does some things right, even though we know not all things are done right. Meanwhile in Canada homes in Surrey and other cities in Canada are being shot at every couple days in extortion attempts and the government seems powerless to stop it.

It looks like Satan has converted the liberals and left to his way of thinking long ago. Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction. You reap what you sow.

In Canada, the supreme court justices are appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister. Political? The answer is obvious.

The problem of a justice system that makes wrongful convictions must be addressed. It is a lack of responsibility to just throw up your hands and say it can't be done. If enough people set their minds to it, I'm sure they could find solutions. Perhaps the system has roadblocks that need to be removed. One of the big roadblocks is liberal left thinking that doesn't want to really hold the criminal responsible. They don't really believe in justice to begin with. About 16,500 people were killed in Canada alone by doctor assisted suicide in 2024 according to statistics. Yet we have people that oppose capital punishment for murderers. Just proves the unregenerate, depraved nature of mankind, as the Bible says. You need to study the Bible to learn the solution to that problem. There is no other guide that can replace that. You can be pretty sure most of these people are not Bible believers and don't care what God thinks. God says "thou shalt not kill". This of course condemns MAID, but Genesis 9:6 KJV says "6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. " Of course MAID is not a punishment for killing someone. Society has it backwards. These same people who oppose capital punishment for murder are most likely agreeable to medical assistance in suicide for the 15,500 per year that take it. Quite a contradiction in thinking.

You forgot to mention the murderers who receive capital punishment won't be repeating their crime. Prison guards and the general public will be much safer. No releasing convicted murderers on mandatory release or parole.

Sadly you do not know the difference between innocent people who are victims of murderers (the public), preborn babies, and murderers that deserve capital punishment. They are all the same to you. You have no conscience.

The answer is simple. Tighten up the justice system and correct any problems that cause wrongful convictions. How many people have been murdered or maimed (including prison guards) by murderers who were given life or let out on parole? What about the native guy who was let out and went a killed about eleven people on the Cree nation in Saskatchewan a few years ago? Countless cases of criminals being let out and re-offending in Canada.

This is an example of a failed justice system. This man stabbed another man 50 times and killed him of course. Any rational person would think this was murder. But the Canadians justice system found him guilty of manslaughter and sentenced him to eleven years, a relatively light sentence. Such a crime should have warranted the death penalty or at least life in prison with no parole. Life should mean life, but not in Canada. Our supreme court declared actual life in prison to be "unconstitutional" or cruel and unusual punishment. If you google this you find this does not really even fit the definition of manslaughter. The legal definition says this: " Unlike murder, death in manslaughter is not planned, and there is no intent to kill. " Manslaughter Laws in Canada: Charges & Sentencing | Criminal Code Help So even though the offender stabbed a man 50 times, the justice system people decided the killer had no intent to kill???? That doesn't make sense. I don't see this as meeting the definition of manslaughter at all. Granted the offender was taking some kind of drugs around that time, but I don't think an offender taking any drugs around the time of a crime should be able to use that as an excuse to be found guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter. That is a perversion of justice. The sentence given him was eleven years. Again a very light sentence for such a horrific crime. The victim must have suffered horrifically. Canada needs to bring back capital punishment. People who commit these kinds of crimes are a serious threat to society and should never be out free again. Who can guarantee that this kind of character will not go out and repeat this same kind of crime? Nobody can make such a guarantee. This person also represents a serious danger to jail guards who have often been attacked in their job. Perhaps this is another reason the Bible prescribes capital punishment for killing. See Genesis 9:6 KJV. It makes no distinction between different classifications of killing. Yet, in Canada, even though it is unlikely, there is a chance he could get out on parole after seven years. Another failure of the justice system. The protection of society should come first in the justice system. However, it Canada, under Liberal rule, the justice system is designed to grant rights to the criminal, even murderers, rights they should never have. That is liberal mentality. It is wrecking this country. The Liberals are apparently bringing in some changes at the moment to the justice system. But don't hold your breath for any serious changes that would protect society. Jamaican who stabbed Albertan 50 times and hid his body gets 11-year sentence for manslaughter

You're not making sense. Of course he stood up for Canada. He stands up for Canada every day and that's his job as opposition leader. He clearly points out the failings of the Liberal government for the past eleven years under Trudeau and now Carney. The big problem he is focused on is affordability and the failure of the liberals to address it properly. Instead they are putting us further into debt. If people can't see that, there is not much more that can be done.

The Canadian government says there is no new trade deal with China. Trump seems to think there is. Liberal cabinet ministers say the deal made with China is just to correct some existing trade issues such as the 100% tariff China put on canola and in exchange allowing a small number of 49,000 EVs into Canada. That is only 3% of the number of cars manufactured in Canada. These are not to dump into the U.S. as Trump seems to think. They will be sold in Canada to Canadians. So I don't think Trump understands this is not a free trade agreement with China. China agrees to reduce the tariff from 100% to a 15% tariff on canola beginning in March. That will save thousands of jobs in Canada. Somebody should explain this to Trump. China is not taking over Canada.

I forgive your transgressions. I apologize for questioning your Christianity.

That’s all good and fine , tariff isn’t a violation of human rights. I was not talking about tariffs. What is your belief about America invading and taking over other countries? Your motto manifest destiny, hegemony, American imperialism appears to mean you believe it would be all all right to take over other countries by force. I don't see how a Bible-believing Christian could believe that. It is fascism. No different than Hitler taking over other countries. Can you explain yourself?

No, the words in the King James Bible are "thou shalt not kill" Exodus 20:13 KJV The modern Bible versions changed the word kill to murder. There is a difference between the two words. The word murder could be interpreted as a legal term, that is, whatever a country's law says is murder and what a country says is not murder. That is not what the King James Bible says and the King James Bible is the only real Bible. It is based on the Received Text. The modern versions are based on the corrupt Alexandrian manuscripts and countless wordings were also changed by the translators of modern versions. The word "kill" is the correct word and refers to any killing that is contrary to the Bible. There are certain exceptions such as self defence, or capital punishment (Genesis 9:6 KJV). But aggression against another country is not an exception to the command in Exodus 20:13 KJV. That would be completely contrary to the Holy Bible or Holy Scripture as I already described. That would be a violation of the sovereignty of another country, stealing on a massive scale as well as a complete violation of human rights. I doubt you could be considered a Christian if that is what you really believe. That is fascist ideology. It is a cult. You appear to know nothing at all about the Bible.

Your motto is "Interests: American Hegemony, Manifest Destiny, American Imperialism" 1. Do you consider yourself a Christian, i.e., a Bible believer? 2. How do you reconcile your motto with God's law that says "thou shalt not steal" if you believe it is fine to reject the sovereignty of other countries and/or take them over? Isn't respect for private property of others a central teaching of the Bible? The sovereignty of a country is also private property and human rights, life, and liberty are private property. So taking over other countries might also involve killing which the Bible condemns. "thou shalt not kill", "thou shalt not steal". "love they neighbour as thyself". All these things would be violated if you say it is alright to take over other countries. What would be the difference between Hitler's Nazis or Putin's Russia conquering and taking over other countries and using the ideology of "American Hegemony, Manifest Destiny, American Imperialism" to take over or control other sovereign countries? I would suggest that ideology is completely contrary to the Bible. I doubt one could be a genuine Christian and at the same time believe in that ideology. The two are completely incompatible. Just because a country has the military capability to take over other countries, does not mean it would be right. Just because you are a citizen of said country, doesn't mean you have the right to support or agree with that ideology if it is contrary to God's written revelation, the Bible. God will judge each person individually. "13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matthew 7: 13, 14 KJV

That is true, but China is a major power in the world and has a population of about 1.4 billion people. Our population is about 40 million, just a drop in the bucket. We are in no position to dictate to China how they must run their country. Trudeau tried that and they just laughed at him. It is unrealistic to think we can tell them how to run their country or any country for that matter. That is not how the world works.