5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release
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A federal judge on Saturday ordered that the pair be released.
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, asylum seekers who were detained by federal agents in Minneapolis last week and sent to a Texas detention facility, boarded a plane home on Sunday after a judge ordered the government to release them.
"I'm happy to finally be going home," Conejo Arias told ABC News' John Quiñones as the pair boarded their flight in San Antonio back to Minneapolis.
Exclusive ABC News videos show Conejo Arias carrying his son while boarding the plane home to Minneapolis.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery had ordered on Saturday that the pair be released from the immigration detention center at Dilley "as soon as practicable" but no later than Feb. 3.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, who last week shared images of the boy after his visit to the detention center, also boarded the flight with the father and son.
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