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A 7-year-old student at Public School 89 in Queens was detained along with her 19-year-old brother and their mother at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-in at 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan this week — the first known ICE arrest of a New York City child under the age of 18 during the second Trump administration.

Within a day, the mother and girl were sent to a family detention center ICE recently reopened in Texas — separated fro

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