5-year-old Liam Ramos and father return to Minnesota from Texas detention facility
CBC
A five-year-old boy and his father detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held in Texas have been released following a judge's order. They have returned to Minnesota, according to the office of Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro.
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20 before being taken to a detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
Katherine Schneider, a spokesperson for Castro, confirmed the two had arrived home. She said the Texas congressman picked them up in Dilley on Saturday night and escorted them home on Sunday to Minnesota.
Images of the young boy wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack and surrounded by immigration officers drew outrage about the Trump administration's crackdown in Minneapolis.
Castro wrote a letter to Liam while they were on the plane to Minnesota, in which he told the young boy he has "moved the world."
"Your family, school and many strangers said prayers for you and offered whatever they could do to see you back home," Castro wrote.
A photo of the letter was posted on social media. "Don't let anyone tell you this isn't your home. America became the most powerful, prosperous nation on earth because of immigrants not in spite of them."
Photos on Castro's social media showed Liam wearing his blue bunny hat and a Pikachu backpack.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, welcomed the boy back, saying in a social media post that he "should be in school and with family — not in detention," adding, "Now ICE needs to leave."
On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, who sits in San Antonio, Texas, and was appointed by former U.S. president Bill Clinton, said in his ruling "the case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children."
Neighbours and school officials said federal immigration officers used the preschooler as "bait" by telling him to knock on the door to his house so that his mother would answer.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has called that description of events an "abject lie," instead saying the father fled on foot and left the boy in a running vehicle in their driveway.
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A five-year-old boy and his father detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held in Texas have been released following a judge's order. They have returned to Minnesota, according to the office of Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro.