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riversedge

(77,982 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:47 AM Tuesday

ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says Video appears to show f

I hardly ever see any follow ups on horrible stories like this.


Abolish ICE

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-09-23T11:04:27.510Z


ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says

Video appears to show federal immigration agents trying to coax the man out of his home while asking, "Is that your daughter?"


https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/ice-agents-held-5-year-old-girl-outside-leominster-home-to-get-father-to-surrender-family-says/3813686/


By Sebastian Agudelo Gomez and Ana Mondello-Mata • Published September 22, 2025 • Updated 24 mins ago

A Guatemalan family from Leominster, Massachusetts, says federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained their 5-year-old daughter outside their home to pressure her father to surrender.

In a recording obtained by Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra, the family's anguished screams can be heard as they try to recover the girl.

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"They took my daughter, she's 5 years old. She has autism spectrum," the woman says in the video. "Give me my daughter back."

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The family said ICE agents challenged Edward Hip, a Guatemalan man who has lived in the United States for 22 years, to leave his home for his daughter..............................

Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.

However, two days later, on Hip's wife's birthday, federal agents returned to the house, pulled the man out of the car and arrested him........................................
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ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says Video appears to show f (Original Post) riversedge Tuesday OP
Those 6 RW asshole justices gave the ok........................ Lovie777 Tuesday #1
Mehdi Hasan follows up, gab13by13 Tuesday #2
Where ? It's not showing. nt eppur_se_muova Tuesday #3
Charge them with kidnapping and child endangerment CanonRay Tuesday #4
Blue states do fight back. murielm99 Tuesday #5
I'm paying attention CanonRay Tuesday #6
Families, neighbors and friends are fighting back by the thousands here in California. Magoo48 Tuesday #17
They need to have people pull off their masks on camera every time they pull this shit. flying_wahini Tuesday #7
That was sick. Botany Tuesday #8
So much for this regime's concern for autistic children. (nt) Paladin Tuesday #9
That's a form of kidnapping, unlawful detainment. These creeps need to go to jail for a very long time. Joinfortmill Tuesday #10
That is what I've been trying to say CanonRay Tuesday #20
Degenerate monsters. Martin68 Tuesday #11
This is really Gestapo shit. The only thing missing are the swastikas. flashman13 Tuesday #12
Meanwhile, mob bosses are facepalming. boonecreek Tuesday #13
These are the real monsters, sick men with depraved minds and hearts. The acronym ice fits them to a T Clouds Passing Tuesday #14
KnR Hekate Tuesday #15
Where the hell is local law enforcement...or are they helping these lawless assholes. Scalded Nun Tuesday #16
Local LEOs should arrest those agents. sakabatou Tuesday #18
Kidnapped not "detained" IbogaProject Tuesday #19

Lovie777

(20,476 posts)
1. Those 6 RW asshole justices gave the ok........................
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:58 AM
Tuesday

rule to ICE.

Any means necessary to obtain brown people for concentration camps and secret deportation to no name country.

Damn "due process".

CanonRay

(15,633 posts)
4. Charge them with kidnapping and child endangerment
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:06 AM
Tuesday

When are blue states going to fight back?

CanonRay

(15,633 posts)
6. I'm paying attention
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:52 AM
Tuesday

and these ICE pricks are breaking the law daily. Use all the tools in the toolbox. The word of indictments of a few of these "officers" will spread like wildfire among the rest. We need action not speeches.

Magoo48

(6,620 posts)
17. Families, neighbors and friends are fighting back by the thousands here in California.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 02:45 PM
Tuesday

Videos of this fight are available by the hundreds across social media here if one cares to verify this statement.
Our state government is working to protect our freedoms. Is it enough?
In my opinion, no government on Earth ever does enough to protect the liberties of its people, but I’m an old lefty from far left field.

flying_wahini

(8,202 posts)
7. They need to have people pull off their masks on camera every time they pull this shit.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:58 AM
Tuesday

People should also say they WILL be held accountable for their criminal conduct as ICE agents
when Democrats are back in control. VERY SOON.

Botany

(75,371 posts)
8. That was sick.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:02 AM
Tuesday

How many of these ice agents are J-6th shits or some of the 150,000 cops that had been fired
for numerous different crimes that Trump had their federal records expunged?

Joinfortmill

(18,994 posts)
10. That's a form of kidnapping, unlawful detainment. These creeps need to go to jail for a very long time.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:08 AM
Tuesday

The United States is still full of racists and fascists.

CanonRay

(15,633 posts)
20. That is what I've been trying to say
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 04:44 PM
Tuesday

Send a message to the other goons...if you break state law you will be prosecuted.

flashman13

(1,534 posts)
12. This is really Gestapo shit. The only thing missing are the swastikas.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:24 AM
Tuesday

Give small men a small amount of power and they become a very large danger to the rest of us.

Clouds Passing

(5,904 posts)
14. These are the real monsters, sick men with depraved minds and hearts. The acronym ice fits them to a T
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:33 AM
Tuesday

IbogaProject

(5,043 posts)
19. Kidnapped not "detained"
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 04:11 PM
Tuesday

That is a federal crime, they likely crossed state lines to kidnap a child. That isn't some slight procedure mishap.

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