"Liam and his father were taken by immigration agents from his snowy suburban Minneapolis driveway and sent 1,300 miles to a Texas detention facility designed to detain families. They have been detained for more than a week. The order specifies the preschooler and his father be released as soon as practicable and no later than Tuesday as their immigration case proceeds through the court system."
"Liam's detention and the striking photo of an agent clutching the boy's Spider-Man backpack as he stared from under a cartoon bunny hat fed mounting outrage over the Trump administration's massive immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and renewed the question: What happens to children when their parents are abruptly taken by ICE? Though nationwide detentions have swept up some undocumented criminals whom the Trump administration says they are targeting they have also ensnared legal residents, families and small children."
A federal judge ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, and required their release as soon as practicable and no later than Tuesday while their immigration case proceeds. Immigration agents removed the boy and his father from a snowy suburban Minneapolis driveway and sent them roughly 1,300 miles to the family detention facility, where they were held for more than a week. A photograph of the child in a cartoon hat with an agent holding his Spider-Man backpack fueled outrage amid a broader enforcement effort that has ensnared legal residents, families and small children. School officials said Liam was the fourth child from the district taken by agents in two weeks, and a congressman said the boy appeared depressed, was not eating well, and asks about his mother and classmates. Family members and school administrators accused ICE of using the child as bait; immigration officials said the mother was nearby.
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