"ICE Is Made Up of a Bunch of Cowards"
Artist Margaret Vail Palmquist eviscerates ICE in a series of illustrations over its abduction of a 5-year-old in the Minneapolis area earlier in the week.
Margaret Vail Palmquist
The Minnesota shutdown is well underway, kicked off with a large picket line by workers and an act of civil disobedience Friday morning by faith leaders outside of the Minneapolis – Saint Paul International Airport, where many protesters are decrying the abduction of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos.
The preschooler, according to school officials, was used as “bait” when he arrived home from school in Columbia Heights on Tuesday, January 20. They say that agents led him to his door and instructed him to knock so that they could assess if anyone else was home.
The agents then took the child and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias (whose attorney said are in the country legally), into custody.
Conejo Ramos and his father are now reportedly being held some 1,300 miles away at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. That facility has come under fire for failing to meet detainees’ basic needs, and witnesses have pointed to moldy and worm-infested food, unclean water and lights that remain on throughout the night.
Artist and organizer Margaret Vail Palmquist has been using illustrations to try to push the public to engage more forcefully — and with the necessary analysis — around many issues, but ICE’s wanton violence has been at the forefront of her mind.
Margaret Vail Palmquist is an artist and organizer living in Queens, New York. You can find her work on Instagram @swedishsummers.
