FULL VIDEO: U.S. Border Patrol has come out in defence of ICE agents following nationwide outrage over the detention of a 5-year-old Minnesota boy. Authorities claim the child was taken into custody after his father allegedly fled and relatives refused to take responsibility, triggering a fierce debate over U.S. immigration enforcement and child detention.
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00:00My officers did everything they could to reunite him with his family.
00:03Tragically, when we approached the door of his residence, the people inside refused to take him in and open the door.
00:14Let me say it again. They saw the young boy, and they refused to open the door and take him back.
00:23This is the human side of the job that my officers do.
00:26They are family men and women. They have children of their own. They sacrifice everything for their families.
00:34I know for a fact that they were heartbroken to see the child's own family and leave him behind.
00:44Fortunately, Conejo Arias eventually requested that his child stay with him.
00:51We do everything in our power not to separate families.
00:54So they took him back together to Minneapolis, tiered to the city, to the ICE facility for processing.
01:01And now they are being well cared for at a family residential center.
01:06This week, ICRO conducted targeted enforcement operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, an illegal alien who was released back into the interior of the United States by the previous administration.
01:19When officers approached Conejo Arias, he and his child were in a vehicle.
01:26Arias fled from law enforcement on foot, abandoning his child in the middle of winter in a vehicle.
01:34One of our officers stayed behind with that child while other officers apprehended his father.
01:40After conducting the arrest, my officers stayed with the child. They cared for him, took him to get something to eat from a drive-thru restaurant and spent hours ensuring he was taken care of.
01:53Again, my officers did that, not his father.
01:56I'll begin today's briefing, go through a few things and then turn it over to my colleague, Mr. Marcos Charles.
02:07And at that time, after Mr. Charles is done, we'll take any questions that you may have.
02:12So, operations continue. Unabated, here in Minneapolis, several illegal alien criminals taken off the streets yet again over the past 24 hours.
02:25Again, that is what we're here to do.
02:27And we're not going to be deterred in doing that.
02:29We are going to take these illegal aliens off the street and make America a safer place, make Minneapolis a safer place.
02:37Again, that is why we're here.
02:40Let me detail a couple of illegal aliens we took off the streets over the past 24 hours that were walking our streets over those past 24 hours.
02:52Here's one, Mr. Carlos Gomez Acosta, charged with cocaine trafficking and a controlled substance violation.
03:00This is an interesting one because this individual was what we would term as a golf, which is a gotaway across the border.
03:09This individual crossed the border and was a golf, a gotaway.
03:14More than likely over those past four years when we had millions crossing the border unabated.
03:20This is what we get in our communities. What happens at the border does not stay at the border.
03:25And then we have Lin Lin Lee, an illegal alien from Red China.
03:34This individual was charged with child neglect and endangerment.
03:41Let me say that again, child neglect and endangerment and prostitution.
03:45An illegal alien walking the streets of Minneapolis.
03:50Now, we just talked children yesterday a little bit.
03:55Let'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.
04:05Here in the U.S. Border Patrol, I will say unequivocally that we are experts in dealing with children.
04:12Let me say that again, experts in dealing with children.
04:14Not because we want to be, but because we have to be.
04:18Over those past four years, hundreds of thousands of children were trafficked across that border.
04:24Guess who they came into contact with?
04:26Sometimes who was the very first law enforcement agency or American citizen that they saw?
04:31U.S. Border Patrol, followed by our counterparts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
04:37We're definitely the experts at dealing with children, unfortunately.
04:42Hundreds of thousands under that last administration.
04:46Not to mention the 300,000 lost children.
04:50300,000 plus lost children were trafficked across that border.
04:54Now, when we've got the news media talking about children, I'd certainly love to hear more reporting on the 300,000 lost children.
05:04How about the 14 that we recovered at that pot farm a few months ago in Camarillo, California?
05:09The 14 lost children trafficked across the border that were found working illegally on a pot farm in California.
05:17Very little reporting from the Minneapolis news media here.
05:21I didn't really hear much from you guys.
05:24And then some of the more heinous crimes against children that are trafficked across the border that ICE and Border Patrol saw daily back when that border was out of control over those past four years.
05:36I'll detail one for you, folks, that's truly heinous.
05:40Border Patrol agents there in the El Centro sector encountered a young child who was approximately three years of age.
05:47The child appeared to be drugged, not with his parents, with strangers.
05:53Agents managed to wake the child up after doing what is known as a sternum rub, which is something that which is a technique to wake someone up that may be induced by drugs.
06:06As the child woke up, we understood the child's parents were not were not with him.
06:12And medical examination saw that this child had non-surgical sutures in his abdomen.
06:19Let me say that again.
06:20Non-surgical sutures in the child's abdomen.
06:23He was being trapped across the border in that condition.
06:26That's not an isolated event with the U.S. Border Patrol or ICE.
06:30We saw that many, many times.
06:33Drugged children coming across the border.
06:35And guess what?
06:36Other than a couple of news outlets, I believe News Nation and Fox reported, nobody else would.
06:43Nothing on a child with non-surgical sutures in his abdomen.
06:49And nobody knows why.
06:50Now, the five-year-old yesterday, some of you had questions on the five-year-old yesterday.
06:58That five-year-old remains with his family.
07:01Let me say that again.
07:02Remains with his family.
07:03We know that.
07:04That false media narrative that was pushed out yesterday was, well, it was false.
07:09Remains with his family.
07:11But let's talk about who doesn't remain with their family.
07:17And I think this is the most important thing that we're talking about with children.
07:23How about our victim of the day?
07:26A victim at the hands of illegal alien criminals.
07:29These same criminals that we are taking off the streets that you see on these screens behind us.
07:35This victim was Rachel Morin.
07:38She left behind five children.
07:40Let me say that again.
07:41She left behind five children after she was killed by an illegal alien from Central America.
07:49He decided to murder her and hide her body in a culvert.
07:53Oh, wait a second.
07:55That was after he raped her.
07:57She separated permanently from her five children.
08:01Let me say that again.
08:03Separated permanently from her five children.
08:08Why isn't that reported on?
08:11Very little reporting in the local news media or the news media on those types of situations.
08:18Now, I would call this the DSP syndrome.
08:21That's a term that I made up.
08:23I'm not a medical doctor.
08:24I'm a Border Patrol agent.
08:26It's called the double standard phenomena.
08:29Say that again.
08:30The DSP is the double standard phenomena.
08:33We see this quite often, the DSP.
08:35American citizens that are arrested daily.
08:39Here in Minneapolis, are they separated from their children and families?
08:42Absolutely, as they should be.
08:44Criminals face consequences.
08:47Criminals face consequences.
08:49But yet, that double standard does not seem to apply to illegal aliens.
08:54Why is that?
08:55Perhaps someone could detail that for me.
08:58Because I don't quite understand all the parameters involved in the DSP, the double standard phenomena.
09:08So, as we continue this mission here in Minneapolis, we will continue to take these bad people, bad things off the streets.
09:21Despite the DSP, the double standard phenomena, despite the false narrative reporting by many news media outlets, we will continue unabated in our mission to ensure there are no more Rachel Morin's separated from her five children.
09:39And I'll close by saying, organizations, victims' organizations, victims' rights organizations.
09:49What about the Angel Moms?
09:51That one's one that's never reported on.
09:53How many victims do you need before an organization like that pops up?
09:57It's not one or two.
09:58It's not one or two.
09:59I can guarantee you that.
10:00Look at MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving from back in the 80s and 90s.
10:04That organization popped up because a lot of children are getting killed by drunk drivers.
10:10Well, what about the Angel Moms now?
10:14How many victims of illegal aliens that should not be here in the United States are causing family separation for American citizens?
10:24That's not reported on by most news media outlets.
10:27How many does it take?
10:28I'd like to ask, excuse me, PBS or CNN or any of the other outlets.
10:34How many?
10:35How many does it take?
10:37I'd love that question.
10:38There's another phenomenon there.
10:39I would love that question answered.
10:41But the fact of the matter is we do have Angel Moms.
10:44A lot of them, unfortunately.
10:47It's very heartbreaking to meet them, although they're not reported on very much.
10:51Heartbreaking.
10:52But we're here to ensure there are no more Angel Moms.
10:55We don't want more Angel Moms.
10:57And that's why Marcus and I are here.
10:59U.S. Border Patrol, ICE, and his allied law enforcement teams.
11:02We're going to take again these criminal aliens off the streets that you see behind us and that I've shown you this morning.
11:10We're going to take them off the streets wholesale.
11:13It's on.
11:15We won't quit.
11:17Thank you for your time this morning.
11:20I'll introduce Mr. Marcus Charles.
11:22Marcus.
11:23Good morning.
11:25Thanks, Commander Bovino.
11:27Thank you all for being here to get the real facts of what ICE federal partners are doing in the Twin Cities.
11:34For us, every day is about public safety, not politics.
11:38It's a shame to see politicians and activists spreading fear in their own communities by creating a false narrative about what we do and who we are and who we arrest.
11:49The media and political activists have tried to deceive the American public about ICE and our operations.
11:56Yet again, they have failed.
11:58But the truth matters.
11:59And I'm here to tell you the truth about what we do.
12:04This week, ICRO conducted targeted enforcement operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, an illegal alien who was released back into the interior of the United States by the previous administration.
12:19When officers approached Conejo Arias, he and his child were in a vehicle.
12:25Arias fled from law enforcement on foot, abandoning his child in the middle of winter in a vehicle.
12:34One of our officers stayed behind with that child while other officers apprehended his father.
12:39After conducting the arrest, my officers stayed with the child.
12:43They cared for him, took him to get something to eat from a drive-thru restaurant, and spent hours ensuring he was taken care of.
12:52Again, my officers did that, not his father.
12:56My officers did everything they could to reunite him with his family.
13:00Tragically, when we approached the door of his residence, the people inside refused to take him in and opened the door.
13:11Let me say it again, they saw the young boy, and they refused to open the door and take him back.
13:19This is the human side of the job that my officers do.
13:24They are family men and women, they have children of their own, they sacrifice everything for their families.
13:31I know for a fact that they were heartbroken to see the child's own family leave him behind.
13:41Fortunately, Conejo Arias eventually requested that his child stay with him.
13:48We do everything in our power not to separate families.
13:52So they took him back together to Minneapolis, to the city, to the ICE facility for processing.
13:58And now they are being well cared for at a family residential center, pending their immigration proceedings.
14:06This is the real face of ICE, ERO, Border Patrol, and our allied partners.
14:12If the media doesn't know our officers, we do.
14:16My officers do the right thing no matter how difficult or how long it takes throughout the day.
14:25Let me debunk a couple more lies.
14:28Conejo Arias was not walking to school with his child, and we did not target the child.
14:35Conejo Arias fled from law enforcement officers and left his child behind.
14:42Again, middle of winter, in a car.
14:47We will enforce the law as it's written, but we will go above and beyond to reunite families because that is who we are.
14:56I also want to clarify the recent arrests of the ringleaders of the city's church riots.
15:02Federal law protects the freedom of religion and the right to worship without interference.
15:07What these agitators did was not a peaceful protest.
15:13They rioted at church services.
15:18They screamed and harassed children.
15:20They denied Minnesotans the ability to worship peacefully.
15:25Again, this was not a peaceful protest.
15:30You don't go up to a child and yell at them.
15:34That is not a peaceful protest.
15:37I've been in law enforcement for 33 years now, and this is the first time I've ever seen a protest in a church where they're harassing individuals trying to peacefully worship.
15:45It's disturbing to know that these individuals would target sacred spaces and viciously harass innocent families.
15:53Sacred spaces must be respected.
15:57While I cannot speak to ongoing investigations and prosecute prosecutions, I can say that ICE, DHS, and the Department of Justice are wholly committed to maintaining public safety and the rule of law.
16:08That is why we are here today.
16:11I am calling on everyone, politicians, the media, and activists, to put an end to the dangerous, irresponsible rhetoric once and for all.
16:19You are pitting communities against federal law enforcement, and you are pitting neighbor against neighbor in Minnesota.
16:27This is why I'm up here almost every day to show you the good work my officers are doing.
16:32This is the same reason that Chief Bovino is up here every day.
16:37The public needs to know about the dangerous criminal illegal aliens we're arresting.
16:42They need to see the faces of the monsters that these agitators are trying to protect.
16:49Yesterday, we arrested the following individuals.
16:54Jose Ocampo Leon, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of sexual conduct with a child under 16.
17:03Also up on these.
17:09Gerardo Sanchez Acuna, a criminal illegal alien convicted of drug trafficking.
17:17Salvador Salazar Rivera, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of violent domestic assault that inflicted bodily injury on his spouse.
17:28These are not the people that you want living next door to you.
17:32Rudy Pineda Aguilar, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, convicted of criminal sexual conduct.
17:38Not the people you want living by your schools.
17:43And finally, Jeffrey Ramon Rabanales, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, convicted of assault, domestic assault, and damage to property.
17:57These are the people that those protesters and agitators are trying to protect.
18:04Here we have the photo.
18:07Here we have a photo.
18:14Moments ago, a group of agitators in a U-Haul van filled with shields.
18:23Oh, it's not coming up.
18:26I think it's a photo off.
18:28shields and gear decided to come over here to the Whipple building and block
18:33traffic. They're trying to currently trying to impede us from getting out of
18:37the building and going and do our mission. I will tell you right now
18:41they're going to fail because no matter what they put up in front of us, we are
18:46here to do a job to protect this community, to protect Minnesotans, and to
18:51keep the criminal legal aliens off the street and put them where they belong
18:56back into detention and remove them from this country. Thank you guys. Take
19:02questions now.
19:26We're relying on you guys to put that message out. We put these slides up for
19:35you so you can get the message out to the public of the good work that our men and
19:40women are doing. Can I just follow up real quick? Sure.
19:43The people that you've taken into custody, you talk about the worst of the work that you
19:48want to do. What about the other people? Are you taking people into custody that you don't
19:52have criminal past, like the people you've talked about? Are there people that are going
19:58through the green card process, the asylum process? Are those people going to attend now, too,
20:02during the surgery? I will tell you this. We operate through intelligence and targeted
20:08enforcement. We are looking for certain individuals. As we are looking for these
20:13individuals, if there is somebody that is illegally in the country and amenable to
20:18removal from this country, we will arrest them.
20:20So some may not have a criminal past, a violent criminal past.
20:23Correct. Correct. Yeah, because every day that they're here, they are committing a
20:28crime. They may have been here 20 years, but that means for the last 20 years, they
20:32have failed to do it the right way. And every day that they're here, they are here illegally in the
20:38United States. Now, we are not targeting those individuals, but if we come across those
20:42individuals in the course of our duties, we will arrest them.
20:44All right, next question. Yesterday, Minnesota's Corrections Commissioner shared videos of inmates
20:49being transferred, handed over to federal agents, and he says he can't find a single case where the
20:55DOC failed to honor the ICE detainers when someone finishes their in-custody state
21:00prison term. He also says that you are overcounting the number of noncitizens that are in-state custody
21:06by a thousand. I'm wondering if you can address those discrepancies between what you guys have
21:12said in these press conferences and what the State Commissioner of Corrections said yesterday.
21:17Yeah, I clarified that yesterday by saying that the Department of Corrections for State of
21:20Minnesota does cooperate. They hand people over at the end of their sentence, and we take them into
21:25custody. The numbers that we put out. When I say the state of Minnesota, I'm not talking about just the
21:32Department of Corrections. I'm talking throughout the state, counties, any municipalities that may be
21:36holding people. So he did say that there are about 207 in prison and 94 in county jails to make
21:46301 total. I believe the numbers you guys are giving were more like 1,300. So what's the discrepancy?
21:53The discrepancy is that he's Department of Corrections and we're Immigration Customs
21:56Enforcement with better databases than he has as far as who are out in custody.
22:01In the state custody, though? In county custody?
22:03And throughout the United States. So the numbers I gave you were for Minnesota, correct. But our
22:10stats, our detainers are the ones that we count. We don't go into DOC data and count their data. It's
22:16not our data. Our data shows that we have over 1,300. In Minnesota?
22:21In Minnesota. Next question.
22:22Just a few questions on the five-year-old and I'll ramble them off quickly and I'll repeat them if
22:27need be. Does the father have a criminal record? What charges was he arrested on? What's the son's
22:32legal status in immigration history? What can you tell us about any nice interactions with the mother as
22:37well as her last legal status in immigration history? That was pretty fast. Let's start with
22:44the first one. Does the father actually have a criminal record? And if so, what charges was he
22:49arrested on? I will have to get back to you with any of this in-depth criminal history, but he was
22:54in the United States illegally and I believe he'd been ordered removed. I'm from the AP. Your press
22:59people do have my contact information. And what's the son's legal status in immigration history? The
23:06family came across as a family unit illegally a few years back. I can't get the date off the top of my
23:12head. Can you tell us anything about ICE's interactions with the mother as well as her legal status in
23:18immigration history? We have not encountered the mother as of this time.
23:25My question is for the commander. Just given portions of your remarks, sir, and we appreciate
23:29you taking questions very much. Of course.
23:31Uh, we have, Maggie Vespa from NBC News, we have reported multiple times in depth quoting DHS's
23:37statements saying that Liam Ramos is being held with his father in Texas. With that context in mind,
23:43we still have people saying that they're outraged at the idea of little kids being held in custody at all. So,
23:50so what do you say to those people and what kinds of conditions are young children being held in?
23:55Um, as far as, um, that family has not been separated. So it goes back,
24:03we've reported that. So even with that in mind, he's in custody being detained in Texas with his dad.
24:08Yes, with his dad. So that goes back to exactly what I just said is many American citizens are
24:14separated when they're arrested, say by Minneapolis Police Department or any other police department,
24:20they are separated from their children when they're arrested. So take a look at what's happening
24:26here with this particular case. They're not being separated. That child is in the least restrictive
24:31setting possible. When I say that we're experts, both Border Patrol and ICE in dealing with immigration
24:38cases that involve children, um, probably the most experienced anywhere in the United States by any
24:44domestic law enforcement agency. I know that, that, uh, in my particular Border Patrol sector,
24:49um, that saw thousands of individuals coming across the border during, during that last demonstration,
24:56including hundreds of children. Uh, I remember our agents in the back parking lot playing soccer
25:02matches with those children in the back parking lot. Uh, I challenge any other law enforcement agency
25:08anywhere nationwide to show me the fantastic care that ICE and US Border Patrol provide children. Don't
25:14come across the border illegally, especially don't commit crimes or there will be consequences and American
25:23citizens face it. So, um, uh, uh, you know, uh, the law is fair and firm. If I may follow up,
25:31you said he's with his family. Another way of looking at that might be that we don't imprison or detain
25:38American children penalizing them for the actions of their parents. So what do you say to those who are troubled by
25:44the contract? Is your child in custody? American kids don't ignore that. Well, I don't think there's
25:49a contrast and the child could, uh, be without his parents somewhere, perhaps in social services care
25:55somewhere. And that's what we see oftentimes by children that are trafficked across the border.
26:02It's heartbreaking. They're not with any family. They're with social services or office, office of
26:08refugee and resettlement. So the child is in the least restrictive setting with a family member. I don't
26:13think it gets any better than that. And as far as the care, uh, the best care that I've seen is
26:20ICE U.S. Border Patrol and what and the way we treat those illegal aliens that come across the border.
26:26Can you give any details as to what that facility is? What's the kid's life like?
26:30I'll let, uh, uh, Marcus talk about it's an ICE facility and not a Border Patrol facility, sir.
26:36So our family residential centers, um, I had the privilege of working in one back in 2015.
26:44So I can tell you firsthand, they get top notch care. Um, they have medical care. The food is
26:50good. They have learning services. They have church services available. They have recreation,
26:56they have, um, special caregivers to see the, to see to the needs of the children and the mothers or
27:02families that are there. It's, it's better. Honestly, it's better than, um, social services. So,
27:09I mean, like if you, if we sent the kid to DSS, it'd be way, way worse off than being there with
27:14their parents in an FRC. All right. That's all the questions. Thank you guys.
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