A Massachusetts police chief is backing the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that a video aired by a news outlet fails to reflect that an illegal immigrant locked his 5-year-old daughter alone in a car as he tried to evade ICE.

Leominster Police Chief Ryan D. Malatos has said his department received a call last Tuesday from a man who reported that he was “inside his home, being ‘hunted’ by people outside.” The man, later identified as Edwards Hip Mejia, also “confirmed that his child was outside, locked in the car alone.”

“While the officers were arriving at this call for service, we received a call from ICE, who was requesting assistance with the child,” Malatos said in a statement on Wednesday. “ICE advised that they attempted a motor vehicle stop pursuit to this address, at whi

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