‘ABANDONED, NOT BAITED’: DHS Fires Back at Minnesota School District Over Child Detention – OXY NEWS CHANNEL

 In this exclusive report from OXY NEWS CHANNEL, we detail the January 23, 2026, rebuttal from the Department of Homeland Security regarding 5-year-old Liam Ramos. We analyze DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin’s statement that the child was "abandoned" by his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, and that the child’s mother refused to take custody at the scene. We compare this to the Columbia Heights School District’s "bait" allegation and the family attorney’s confirmation that the family entered via the CPB app with an active asylum claim. We also cover Vice President JD Vance’s comments defending the agents' actions as a matter of child safety.