Haitian boy, 8, detained during scheduled immigration appointment
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Homeland Security said the uncle did not have legal custody, so it took the boy under a 2008 anti-human-trafficking law “out of an abundance of caution.”

An 8-year-old Haitian boy is in federal custody after showing up for a scheduled immigration appointment earlier this week.

The incident was documented on video Wednesday by Karen Pohl, a volunteer immigration court observer with the group Detention Resistance. She said she’s never seen someone that young being detained before.

“It was just — I couldn’t believe what I was seeing because I had never watched a child by himself get detained in that manner,” Pohl said.

  • Dryad
    12·
    14 hours ago

    Usually it’s fairy tale trolls, witches, hags, and monsters that abduct children like this. Strange bunch to want to imitate.