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Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and father from ICE detention center

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery criticized deportation quotas and ordered release of father and son by Feb. 3, citing due-process concerns and inadequate legal detention procedures.

  • A judge ordered the U.S. to release 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from a Texas detention center after they were detained in Minneapolis last month.
  • U.S. District Judge Fred Biery stated, "the case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas."
  • Neighbors reported that federal immigration officers in Minnesota used Liam as "bait" to capture his mother.
  • Since reopening last year, detained families have reported poor conditions at the detention center, including worms in food and inadequate medical care.
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An American judge ordered the release of a five-year-old boy and his father from a detention centre for immigrants in Texas, condemning their detention as motivated by “the strong desire for unbridled power”.

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A federal judge on Saturday ordered that the five-year-old boy identified by the initials L.C.R. and his father, Adrian Alexander Rabbit Arias, be released from the immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas, after they were arrested at his home in Minnesota last week.In his ruling, the judge for the West District of Texas, Fred Biery, accused the Trump Administration of “ignoring a historic American document called the Declaration of Indepen…

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The US government must release 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian, by Tuesday. A US judge ruled this Saturday. The toddler and his father were arrested in January in a Minneapolis suburb by ICE agents. They are being held in a detention center in Texas. The father is originally from Ecuador. A photo of the 5-year-old boy surrounded by ICE agents went viral and sparked widespread outrage. In his ruling, the judge criticized Presi…

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The Daily Star broke the news in on Friday, January 30, 2026.
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