Immigration agents reportedly detained a 6-year-old girl, her teenage brother and her mother at a Manhattan immigration court last week.

The family, originally from Ecuador, had appeared for a routine check-in at 26 Federal Plaza when Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) agents took them into custody on August 12, according to CBS News.

Newsweek has contacted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment via email outside regular office hours.

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President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to remove millions of immigrants without legal status as part of his hard-line mass deportation policy. The White House has said that anyone living in the country illegally should be considered a criminal. As a result of widespread arrests and deportation

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