The Keith Edwards Show - ICE Is Arresting Kids Now...

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

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Yesterday, this image went viral of a five-year-old boy being detained by ISS, said here in Minneapolis, ICE arrested a five-year-old coming from preschool who was being used as human bait. ICE arrested the five-year-old. His teachers describe him as, quote, a bright young student. Going on here, the Columbia Heights Public School District says federal agents have detained far of its students in four separate incidents. over the last two weeks. One child is a five-year-old boy who attends a district elementary school uses, quote, bait to draw family members out of their home. Said here, why detain a five-year-old? You can't tell me this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal. The quote goes on to say,

another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child and was refused. Well, we have the ice, I don't even know, was he the Nazi, I don't know what this guy's name is. I don't actually care to learn. But we have him responding to this. And we also had the VP's comments about this. I first want to say this, that this is happening because ICE was funded by our government. Now, look at this.

I thought this was shocking. This is how much ICE was gotten funding well below $10 billion. slightly increasing every year. And then because of Donald Trump's one big beautiful bill, which by the way, Congress shut down the government to stop, but then reopened it for the promise of being able to vote on health care, not even given anything. And they all voted to fund this.

They funded this obscenity. I don't know what the solution is here, but I kind of feel like if you're helping fund, secret police that is controlled by Donald Trump, you're no friend of democracy. You're no friend of mine. You're no friend of mine, okay? I don't know if we got a primary of these people, but, and folks get mad at me because they're like, Keith, well, why don't you focus on the Republicans?

Well, because Republicans want this shit. I'm focused on the party that will maybe potentially be able to change this. And if they're not willing to look at this from a moral lens and say that we, we, can message that what ICE is doing needs to be completely changed by either abolishing it or by deeply, deeply, deeply, defunding it, then I don't know what to tell you. I want better Democrats. I don't care about getting better Republicans right now. I think republicanism is kind of a lost cause. That's their problem at the moment. I want to focus on the Democrats who think this is business as usual. It's not. It's not. All right. Here is a little bit more.

about what happened to that young five-year-old. To get my own children from school, and I heard the commotion and saw all the people. And as I got out of my car and came around the corner, I heard, what are you doing? Don't take the child. There are people here that can take him. There was another adult who lived in the home that was there saying, I will take the child. I will take the child. Somebody else was yelling they saw that I was there and said,

school is here. They can take the child. You don't have to take them. And there were, there was ample opportunity to be able to safely hand that child off to adults. And mom, mom was there. She saw the window and dad was yelling, please do not open the door. And I actually don't know if the child is an American citizen or not. Five-year-old child, how long has the family been here? When did the family get into the country? They were actually asked that in a press conference, and I don't feel like they had a satisfactory answer. They kind of skirted the question. Does the father actually have a criminal record?

And if so, what charges was he arrested about? I will have to get back to you with any of this in-depth criminal history, but he was in the United States illegally. So I'm a little like, I'll have to go back to you about the in-death, about the criminal record. How do you not, like, they were supposed to, they were supposed to only be going after criminals. And if you're going to do a press conference on the person you detain, maybe you should have that information. What's the son's legal status in immigration aspect? The family came across as a family unit illegally. So again, like, what's the son's legal status?

The family came across illegally. The family, the son? What's the son's legal status? Are you detaining an American citizen? A few years back, I can't get the date off top of my head. and they don't know where the mom is. All right. This Bovino guy, who literally is a reincarred Nazi, said this about U.S. Border Patrol.

Let's talk a little more since we've got an illegal alien. We just took off the streets of Minneapolis that was someone engaged in child neglect and endangerment. Child neglect and endangerment. But the kid was at preschool. In the U.S. Border Patrol, I will say unequivocally that we are experts. in dealing with children. Let me say that again, experts in dealing with children. This guy gives me the hebi-jeebies. I do not like this guy. He also said this about detaining a child and why it's actually good. You said he's with his family. Another way of looking at that might be that we don't imprison or detain American children,

penalizing them for the actions of their parents. So what do you say to those who are troubled by the contrast? They see a child in custody. American kids don't adore that. Well, I don't think there's a contrast. And the child could be without his parents somewhere, perhaps in social services care somewhere. And that's what we see oftentimes by children that are trafficked across the border. It's heartbreaking. They're not with any family. They're with social services or office of refugee and resettlement. So the child is in the least restrictive setting with a family member.

I don't think it gets any better than that. It does get better than that. How about if the child isn't in prison? How about that? How about the child is not in jail? How about if the child is with people who actually can take care of the child in a way a child needs to get taken care of? A prison or jail is no place for a child. And I don't care. I'm going to say it. This is exactly the shit the Nazis did. This is exactly the shit the Nazis did. I am despondent and alarmed by the images I see coming on in Minnesota. I think the difference between today and Germany, Germany is that Nazi Germany didn't have videos. At least we can see what's going on, but we are literally going into folks, not we, but this country's government is going into people's homes, arresting them without due process, and they're also just deporting U.S. citizens. Like this, like, again, like I've tried looking to it. We don't know that child is a U.S. citizen or not,

but this government has removed U.S. citizens with their mothers from the country. said here, Trump appointed judge said on Friday that while the government contends that removing children from the country with their mothers is okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her, the court says that they just don't know that. There's been no evidence of it. And by the way, it is illegal and unconstitutional to do the thing that they've admitted to doing. Okay? And research shows that the actions that the administration is doing is bad for children's health and children's role being. So that bovino guy, Nazi bovino, doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. I'm enraged. I am enraged for that child. I'm enraged for every family who is afraid. I'm

rage for Minneapolis. I'm enraged at Democrats because what the fuck are we doing? What are we doing? We need better Democrats. We need better Democrats. Republicans are beyond saving. The only hope we have right now are Democrats. And we need Democrats to be fighting this forcefully. Where's Amy Klobuchar? I haven't fucking heard a word from her. Where is she? Senator of Minneapolis? Where are you? I haven't heard a thing. Why aren't you at the protests? Why aren't you making noise about this? You're a leader. You've been elected to protect and defend your country. You've been elected to protect and defend your state, to represent your state. Right now, your state needs protection and defense.

And if you're not up for it, then get out of the way. Thank you for your service, but move, get out of the way. We need to get people in there who are fighters. I like this mayor, Jacob Fry. I think Tim Walls is doing the best he can, but we need fighters. We need fighters. And if you're not willing to fight stuff that we know is absolutely, wrong, immoral, illegal, and hurting people for no reason, and hurting our standing around the world.

Get out of the way. Get out of the way.