The two-year-old girl detained by federal agents in Minneapolis with her father on January 22nd. Photograph: Handout photoFederal immigration agents detained a two-year-old girl and her father in Minneapolis on Thursday and transported them to Texas, according to court records and the family’s lawyers. “The horror is truly unimaginable,” Ms Vaynerman said. The two-year-old and her father were then placed in an immigration agent’s vehicle, which Ms Kelley wrote did not have a car seat. The girl, the lawyers wrote, has lived in Minneapolis “since her arrival in the United States as a newborn”.

Source: The Irish Times January 24, 2026 14:00 UTC