Democrats Demand Answers on 8-Year-Old Haitian Boy Detained by ICE at San Diego Check-In

An 8-year-old Haitian third-grader was taken into custody on November 4 at what his family said was a routine ICE check-in in San Diego; a 36-second video obtained by NBC News shows three armed officers leading him away. He had lived with his uncle’s family since his father was deported in 2025, but ICE treated him as an unaccompanied child and transferred him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff and four House Democrats wrote to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asking where he is and about the use of restraints. DHS said ICE acted “out of an abundance of caution” and called the allegations “false.”