ICE said Friday that a report by a Telemundo station in Puerto Rico about a family being detained in Milwaukee was "completely false."

Elected officials and Milwaukee immigration advocates say they are working to authenticate the incident but have few details to go on.

The rumor circulated at the same time as reports of ICE raids in Puerto Rican and Dominican communities in New Jersey.

A Puerto Rican family, including a toddler, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Milwaukee after being overheard speaking Spanish; this incident is the latest in a surge of racial profiling concerns amid Trump's immigration crackdown.

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