ICE Agents Held 5-Year-Old Autistic Girl as Bait to Arrest Her Dad
A Guatemalan family claims that the agents of the application of the immigration law held their autistic daughter 5 years outside their home in Leominster, Massachusetts, last week to encourage their father to go there.
As Telemundo reported On Monday, the father – a man named Edward Hip, who has lived in the country for more than two decades and has an active asylum request – would have led with his daughter when he called his wife at home and said that someone seemed to follow them. When they returned home, Hip “managed to return to my house’s parking lot,” said his wife, but the agents took their hands on the child.
Video sequences obtained by Telemundo show that the father and the mother plead with several men, apparently federal agents, surrounding the girl in an alley. “They took my daughter, she is 5 years old. She has an autism spectrum, ”may be heard the woman cry in the recording.
“We did not take your daughter,” said one of the agents, to whom the mother replied: “Ok, give me my daughter.”
In another part of the video, agents can be seen to make a gesture so that parents come. “Is it your daughter? Come here so that I can see these identifiers,” asked one of them. Hip replies that he can “give it through the door”, but the agent, pointing to him, says: “You can do it here.”
The local police service has apparently intervened, saving the daughter of federal agents. Arrive at the scene, Boston NBC reports“The police from the Minster has recovered the child and returned him to the family.” Two days later, however, federal agents returned, stopping the hip of his car.
Tricia McLaughlin, head of the Ministry of Internal Security, described the story “a disgusting smear”, on X, alleging that Hip had already been arrested, “ignored the emergency lights of the police to stop” and “abandoned” his daughter in the car while he was fled inside.
“The police helped save the child and called local police to report abandonment,” said McLaughlin wrote.
