ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with Leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Texas Public Radio/NPR

Published June 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM CDT


A Honduran mother and her two children — ages six and nine — have sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses.

The mother brought her two children to the immigration court on May 29 expecting to continue to make a case for asylum after fleeing Honduras due to threats of violence. But like many other immigrants across the country, they were surprised to see their case quickly dismissed as ICE agents waited for them to step out of the courthouse into the hallway.

"There were men waiting for them in civilian clothing. The men [ICE agents] detained the family for many hours, and it was a terrifying time for the two children and their mother," said Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said. "The six-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself, and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

The family was then transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they have been detained for several weeks. The six-year-old boy has been diagnosed with Leukemia and has missed a medical appointment to be treated for worsening symptoms, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Antonio by the Immigrant Rights Clinic and The Texas Civil Rights Project.

Read more: https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2025-06-25/ice-arrested-a-6-year-old-boy-with-leukemia-at-immigration-court-his-family-is-suing

[Passages]

1. Shameful.

[Conjuay]

10. So this guy brought a GUN into a courthouse and didn't get wrestled to the ground?

[Bayard]

2. He certainly sounds like a dangerous criminal

ICE waits right outside court rooms for immigration hearings to be dismissed. Just plain vicious.

[IbogaProject]

5. Worse actual criminals snagged by ICE are being let loose

Then when one eventually murders or is simply accused (framed) we will hear all about it for the 2026 midterms.

[maspaha]

3. Sounds pro-life to me

[NNadir]

8. My thought exactly.

[The Blue Flower]

4. This stuff makes Homan (not human) happy

He "feels like a kid in a candy store." He can inflict as much suffering on innocent people as his imagination will allow. I hope karma falls hard on him--and soon.

[Lokee11]

6. I hate these ICE Assholes!

I pray that one day we are able to gain control and bring these ICE criminals to justice - what they truly deserve I can not place within this post as it is not humane.

I'll just say I hope the flames of HELL slowly and excruciatingly melt ICE to the point of evaporation!

What soul-less creatures they are - FUCK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM AND ALL THOSE ASSOCIATED TO THEM!

✊!

[demosincebirth]

15. Gestapo school graduates for sure!

[NBachers]

7. These are our concentration camp Zyklon B shower torture murderers.

[Hekate]

9. Death Panels

[Mr.WeRP]

11. That is called Murder.

[MIButterfly]

12. Those heartless, soulless bastards.

Eff the whole miserable lot of them. That is beyond shameful. They are not human beings; they are monsters.

That this is what our country has come to makes me absolutely disgusted and heartbroken. And that people are okay with this makes it even worse.

Hell in a hand basket.

[dlk]

13. Grown men, with guns, terrorizing little children

No wonder they wear masks.

[TommieMommy]

14. Shame on them 😡 that family especially the child will have horrible nightmares for a very long time.