A heartbreaking story about Liam Conejo Ramos:
Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old boy taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, is now sick, sleeping a lot and asking for his mom, according to his family and lawmakers who have visited him.
Liam and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, drew national attention when they were taken by ICE last week. The viral image of the young boy wearing a blue, bunny-ear hat and a Spider-Man backpack during his father’s detainment has only further fueled the outrage in Minnesota and nationwide over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Representatives Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett, both Democrats from Texas, visited Liam and his father Wednesday at a detention facility, the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. Both lawmakers reported being alarmed by the child’s condition and are demanding his release.
Castro said the preschooler asking for his mom and his family, and telling his father he wants to go back to school.
“He seemed lethargic. His father said that Liam has been sleeping a lot, that he’s been asking about his family, his mom and his classmates, and saying that he wants to go be back in school with his classmates,” Castro said at a press conference Wednesday.
After filing the writ of habeas corpus:
Judge orders release of 5-year-old boy detained in Minnesota
Story by Joseph Pisani
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In his order Saturday, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, included the photo of Liam and criticized the federal government’s mass deportation plans as “ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented.” He said that administrative warrants—which are issued by the executive branch of government and aren’t signed by a judge—weren’t sufficient to meet constitutional requirements for probable cause. “That is called the fox guarding the henhouse,” Biery wrote. “The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.”
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