A federal judge in Texas ordered this Saturday that the five-year-old boy Liam Conejo Ramos is released with his father from the immigration detention center in Texas where they were taken from Minnesota on January 22, causing great consternation in the United States.
The failure of Magistrate Fred Biery demands the release of the Ecuadorian boy and his father before Tuesday at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dille, according to the Express-News newspaper.
According to the newspaper, the judge noted that the case against both “has its genesis in the poorly conceived and incompetently implemented search by the government of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.
Arrested on January 22
Four minors, including Liam and a ten-year-old girl, were detained on January 22 in the Columbia Heights school district in Minnesota by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the framework of the intensive raids that the Donald Trump Administration is taking place in this state and has caused two deaths.
ICE agents in Minneapolis / Europa Press/Contact/Katie G. Nelson
Liam and his father were detained in the driveway of their home just as they returned from school and were taken to the family detention center in Texas.
The arrest and the image of the boy with a blue hat and a Spider-Man backpack while a masked federal agent stood behind him caused a stir in the country.
Texas Congressmen
This week a group of congressmen, including Joaquín Castro of Texas, visited the center to evaluate its conditions and also met with the father of the boy, whose deportation was also blocked by the court. He Ramos’ father told Castro that his son “has not been the same” since the arrest and that he is concerned about her well-being.
A poster with the image of little Liam Ramos during a protest against ICE / Europa Press/Contact/Matthew Hoen
The lawyers representing the Ramos family have announced that are legally in the United States as part of an asylum application, but the Immigration agency assures that the permit expired last April.
His defense has denounced that the Conditions in the detention center are terrible: the water is in poor condition and is often undrinkable and the food has insects, dirt and other remains that make it inedible.
A protester is arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA / CRAIG LASSIG / EFE
It is also warned that the children do not receive education, with barely an hour of training a day, and that the guards treat them very harshly and humiliate them.
Raids continue in Minnesota
On the other hand, a federal judge endorsed this Saturday that immigration raids ordered by Donald Trump continue in the state of Minnesota, where large protests have occurred and two protesters were shot dead by federal agents.
Judge Katherine Menéndez denied the injunction requested by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and by the mayors of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, who had asked to stop the raids considering that the Department of Homeland Security violated various constitutional protections.
The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, celebrated the court decision on social networks: “This is a victory for security and public order”.
Immigrants arrested
The Trump Administration launched the call last December operation “Metro Surge”, a set of operations to arrest undocumented migrants in Minnesota, a state governed by Democrats.
Protest against the arrest of Liam Conejo Ramos and the death of Alex Pretti in actions of federal agents in Minnesota / Europa Press/Contact/Gina M Randazzo
Las Aggressive raids have been rejected by local authorities and thousands of protesterswho have protested in recent weeks to demand the departure of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from the state.
During the protests, Immigration agents shot and killed two protesters, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, both 37 years old. and American nationality, which has generated outrage throughout the country.
In the face of growing tension, Trump relieved operational command this week and sent his border czar, Tom Homan, to the area.in search of a “de-escalation”, although he has promised that the raids will continue.
