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ICE Detains 7-Year-Old Student in NYC

HeadlineAug 18, 2025

New York immigration advocates are demanding the release of a 7-year-old elementary school student who was taken into custody along with her 19-year-old brother and their mother at a routine check-in with ICE at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan last week. This is the first known ICE arrest of a New York City child under the age of 18 during Trump’s second term. The City reports the girl and her mother were transferred to a newly reopened family detention camp in Dilley, Texas, while the teen was sent to the troubled Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey. The family is from Ecuador and lives in Queens. This comes as some Democratic lawmakers are calling for Governor Kathy Hochul to shut the power off at 26 Federal Plaza to stop what they call ICE’s occupation of that building.

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