How a 5-year-old boy got caught up in the ICE crackdown

Jan 23, 2026 16 min

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ICE detained a 5-year-old boy at a school in suburban Minneapolis, prompting outrage from the community. <a href="https://apple.news/AdS6DPKt-Sz2gKRrQ38o4hQ">Minnesota Public Radio</a>’s Elizabeth Shockman joins to talk about the apprehension, and how the Trump administration is defending it. Crime across the country seems to be dropping at fast pace. Henry Grabar of <a href="https://apple.news/AxZeHw9XFT0WRLYXggc1DUQ">The Atlantic</a> discusses why. On Oscar-nomination day, the vampire film ‘Sinners’ broke the record for most nominations by a single movie. <a href="https://apple.news/AekRMYFGeS4WZHJldQzEgUw">Variety</a>’s Clayton Davis breaks down this year’s <a href="https://apple.news/AowjjJBVySYir-cJ1zzDcfA">nominees</a>. Plus, former special counsel Jack Smith <a href="https://apple.news/AvtIiZcbPT-G9L3Hjqdy5dw">testified</a> before Congress about his two indictments of President Trump, TikTok finalized a deal to keep operating <a href="https://apple.news/AcG1FN6KiRwqCvFufz5pHyg">in the U.S.</a>, and how one reporter <a href="https://apple.news/AngWY6WwTTbGho6hQndDVAg">captured</a> the beauty of nature and an unsettling truth about what humans are doing to it. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.

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