US EditionRep. Joaquin Castro Meets with the 5-Year-Old Boy Held with His Father at a Texas Detention Facility
A federal judge halted deportation of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father amid health concerns at Texas detention center, highlighting ICE's impact on immigrant families.
- On Tuesday U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery issued an order blocking deportation of Liam Conejo Ramos, 5-year-old child, and Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, father, staying removal and transfer.
- Taken from their Minneapolis home on Jan. 20, Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were taken into custody and transported to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.
- At the Dilley facility detainees staged a strike involving an estimated 1,000 detainees, or 80% participation, while attorney Eric Lee described putrid water, contaminated food and verbally abusive guards.
- On Jan. 30, students plan a walkout amid declining attendance, with Rochester reporting 530 more absences from Jan. 9-27 and 186 students enrolling in online school since Jan. 7.
- A CBS News/YouGov poll earlier this month found 61 percent say ICE is being `too tough`, while federal agency data show more than 73 percent of detainees lack criminal convictions.
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Slog AM: Liam Conejo Ramos is Sick, State Senators Vote to Lower BAC Limit, 12saquah Returns
The Stranger's morning news roundup. by Micah Yip Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old taken by ICE in Minneapolis, is sick behind bars, according to his school’s superintendent. Liam reportedly is vomiting, feverish, experiencing stomach pain, and doesn’t want to eat, his mother told the superintendent. All this is due to the abysmal conditions and bug-infested food at the South Texas Family Residential Center, where Liam is being held with his…
Minneapolis principal gets emotional over 5-year-old still detained by ICE, says his friends "notice that he's not here"
Images of Liam Conejo Ramos wearing a blue bunny hat and his backpack garnered national attention following his detention. "He was a catalyst," Valley View Principal Jason Kuhlman told CBS News.
Reps. Castro and Crockett describe conditions at ICE Dilley detention center
U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio and Jasmine Crockett of Dallas said conditions they observed Wednesday inside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley amount to “inhumanity.” The two Democrats urged Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and other children.
Democrats Call for Release of 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE
Democratic lawmakers called Wednesday for the immediate release of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old detained by federal agents in Minnesota, after visiting him and his father in an immigration holding facility. The detention of the boy — seized while wearing a Spider-Man backpack — has become a flashpoint, as anger has continued to grow over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and deportation efforts. Critics called his detention emb…
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