3rd grade student taken into ICE custody

The Department of Homeland Security is defending ICE officers who took custody of an 8-year-old Haitian child at an immigration hearing in San Diego last week. The child had been living with his uncle who brought him to the check-in, according to the San Diego Unified School District where the boy attended school. But in a statement to Scripps News, the Department of Homeland Security said ICE "confirmed” that the man was not part of the boy's family and was not the child’s legal guardian. “Out of an abundance of caution and to ensure the child’s safety, ICE determined it was best to remove the child from the household and place him in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement,” DHS said in the statement. Video of the boy being led away by ICE agents quickly spread online. ------------------------------------- Follow Scripps News on other platforms— Join our newsletter at https://bit.ly/2q1tepr Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scrippsnews/ Follow us on X: https://x.com/scrippsnews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scrippsnews/ Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scrippsnews