Liam Conejo Ramos and his father spent 12 days in a detention center for migrant families in Texas, 1,800 kilometers away from Minnesota, where they live
Liam Rabbit Ramosthe five-year-old boy whose arrest two weeks ago in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents sent him around the world, returned home after being released on Saturdayreported this Sunday (1st) a legislator.
“Liam is already at home, with his hat and his backpack,” Joaquín Castro, Democratic representative from Texas, wrote in X, alongside a photograph of the boy.
On January 20, Liam and his father were detained on the streets of Minneapolis in an operation carried out by Immigration Service (ICE) agents aimed at detaining and expelling undocumented immigrants.
This federal agency is at the center of controversy due to the wide margin with which it has operated since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, especially after the death of two protesters at the hands of two ICE agents in January, in Minneapolis.
The photo of the boy at the time of his arrest, in which he appears scared, wearing a blue hat with rabbit ears and a backpack, being held by a silhouette dressed in black, moved the world.
United States Vice President JD Vance stated that the boy had been detained by ICE after his father, allegedly an illegal immigrant, tried to flee to avoid his arrest.
Father and son spent 12 days in a detention center for migrant families in Texas1,800 kilometers away from this city in the American state of Minnesota.
A federal judge on Saturday ordered their release.
Liam and his Dad walked out of Dilley detention center last night. They should have never been there in the first place. Thanks to your voices and outcry, they are now free.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx)
The judge stated in his decision that “this issue has its origins in the implementation, poorly conceived and poorly executed by the government, of daily expulsion quotas, even though this involves traumatizing children”.
“It also appears that the government ignores a historic document of the United States called the Declaration of Independence,” wrote this Texas judge appointed by a Democratic president.
After the magistrate’s decision, father and son were released on Saturday, and Joaquín Castro, as he himself said, took them this Sunday morning to Minnesota.
“We will not stop until all families, all children, are back in their homes”, he assured.
*With information from AFP
