Crime & Safety

12-Year-Old Boy Left Alone On Sidewalk After ICE Raid In Massachusetts

"He looks about my son's age," Colleen Bradley-MacArthur said. "It makes me feel sick to my stomach as a mom, as a human being."

(CBS Boston)

Updated on: May 13, 2025 / 7:20 AM EDT

A 12-year-old boy was left behind on a street after an immigration raid in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were seen on camera leaving the boy by himself on a sidewalk after arresting the person he was with on Felton Street recently. Neighborhood Watch volunteers were able to get the boy home safely.

Waltham City Councilor Colleen Bradley-MacArthur witnessed the raid and recorded some of it on video. She said a volunteer notified the boy of his rights and walked him back to his home.

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A boy was left alone on a Waltham, Massachusetts, sidewalk after the adult he was with was taken into custody by ICE agents/CBS Boston

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