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‘Chilling’: Internet erupts over Border Patrol comments on detaining a 5-year-old boy

The internet had scathing reactions Friday to Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino's comments about a 5-year-old in Minnesota who was taken into ICE custody after agents targeted his father.
Bovino was speaking at a press conference in Minneapolis and confirmed that Liam Conejo Ramos was in his family's driveway when he returned home from school with his father and that both of them were taken away in a vehicle and sent to an ICE facility in Texas. Bovino attempted to argue that ICE has treated children well following public scrutiny over the agency's actions.
"The child is in the least restrictive setting with a family member. I don't think it gets any better than that," Bovino said.
Social media users had sharp responses to Bovino's comments:
"Does he think that being the size of a child makes him an expert on children?" Navy veteran Molly Rogers wrote on Bluesky.
"They are experts at dealing with the unarmed, that's true enough," Joan, an ADHD coach and Canadian, wrote on Bluesky.
"Dealing with children…is a chilling statement," writer and filmmaker Nicole Quinn wrote on Bluesky.
"All I can see is his soulless, dead eyes. The child should be at home with his mother and not in a restrictive setting, for Christ's sake," user Chidi wrote on X.
"If that's the situation, Commander Bovino, please allow the press and congressional members to visit and inspect this Texas camp along with other ICE facilities run by the Trump administration..." user DeSota Wilson wrote on X.
Bovino: "The child is in the least restrictive setting with a family member. I don't think it gets any better than that." pic.twitter.com/2QsjjYOs5V
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 23, 2026
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Gavin Newsom captured on video laughing as Trump delivers Davos speech

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom was captured on video laughing Wednesday while listening to President Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
During his speech, which lasted over an hour and saw him confuse Iceland with Greenland, Trump lavished praise on his own administration for the “help” it provided the city of Los Angeles last year, referring to his immigration raids that saw state leaders declare a state of emergency.
“We’re gonna help the people in California, we want to have no crime. I know Gavin was here – I used to get along so great with Gavin when I was president, Gavin’s a good guy,” Trump said, as C-SPAN footage showed Newsom listening near the back of the large auditorium.
“If he needed it, I would do it in a heartbeat, we did help them a lot in Los Angeles. If I were a Democrat governor, I would call up Trump, I’d say ‘come on in, make us look good,’ because we’re cutting crime down to nothing!”
Following Trump’s remarks about “cutting crime down to nothing,” Newsom could be seen cracking a large smile and laughing, shaking his head while standing near the back of the room.
Newsom’s relationship with Trump has been openly hostile during Trump’s second term, with the governor’s press office frequently mocking the president over his chaotic tenure, and accusing him of trying to “distract from the Epstein files” – a reference to the Justice Department’s unreleased trove of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that, by law, were required to be released in full by Dec. 19.Governor Gavin Newsom reacts to President Trump's remarks on California at World Economic Forum. pic.twitter.com/DiVtb5qH8r
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 21, 2026

