New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- ICE authorities detained at least four children including a 5-year-old from a Minneapolis-area school district this month, school district officials said on Thursday.

Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, however denied that a child was targeted. "ICE did NOT target a child," she said in a statement.

The report of children being detained by ICE comes days after the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman, Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minnesota and amid concerns over US President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration, which has seen at least 3,000 officers deployed to Minnesota's largest city, as per a report by Reuters.

Trump has described the crackdown as a battle to get violent criminal...