Local school officials say the boy was taken with his father. A government spokeswoman denied ICE was targeting the boy.

Local school officials say the boy was taken with his father. A government spokeswoman denied ICE was targeting the boy.

The boy was taken along with his father, the lawyer and school officials say. ICE says it was not targeting the boy.

Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained four children from the same Minnesota school district this month, including a 5-year-old boy.

School officials say the child was taken during an ICE operation as Minnesota faces an intensified immigration crackdown.

A 5-year-old boy and his father were detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, according to a Minnesota school official.

Federal agents have detained a 5-year-old boy and his father in Minnesota, taking them to a detention facility in Texas.

A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family's lawyer said, making him the fourth student from his Minneapolis suburb to be detained by immigration officers in recent weeks. Federal agents took Liam Conejo Ramos from a running car while it was in the family's driveway on Tuesday afternoon, Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik said during a news conference Wednesday. Stenvik said the family has an active asylum case and has not been ordered to leave the country.

A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family’s lawyer said.