New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- US Vice President JD Vance defended thousands of federal agents leading an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, blaming "far-left agitators" and uncooperative local officials for chaos on the streets.

Vance's statement came as US immigration officials reportedly detained at least four children, including a five-year-old, from the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights.

Zena Stenvik, superintendent of the Columbia Heights Public School District, was quoted by Reuters as saying that armed and masked ICE officers apprehended four students as of this week, listing two 17-year-olds and a 10-year-old in addition to the five-year-old boy, Liam Conejo Ramos.

Flanked by federal officers and two Immi...