5-year-old detained by ICE when father fled now ordered released
A judge has made a glaring error in an order that a 5-year-old boy, taken into custody by ICE when his father apparently fled from law-enforcement officers.
But presumable he’ll want it followed, even though the date of the order is “February 31, 2026,” a day that doesn’t exist.
The comical mistake is the latest in a series of developments in the case involving Liam Conejo Ramos, 5.
He and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Ramos, were released from ICE custody and returned to Minneapolis.
Patricia McLaughlin, of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, confirmed the release.
“The facts in this case have NOT changed: ICE did NOT target or arrest a child,” she explained. “The Trump administration is committed to restoring the rule of law and common sense to our immigration system, and will continue to fight for the arrest, detention, and removal of aliens who have no right to be in this country.”
And DOJ officials said an appeal may follow.
Said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, “The immigration law, the body of immigration law is much different than our typical criminal process because of the administrative nature of what we do every day. And so, to the extent that we need to appeal that judge’s decision, I promise we will.”
CNN reported the future remains cloudy for the two.
“The 5 year old and his father were taken from their snowy suburban Minneapolis driveway earlier this month and transported more than 1,300 miles to the Dilley family detention center in south Texas, a move that drew outrage after images circulated of an agent clutching the boy’s Spider Man backpack as he looked on beneath a cartoon bunny hat,” CNN explained.
Their lawyer has claimed they entered the U.S. legally and applied for asylum.
DHS has disputed the lawyer’s claim the father entered the U.S. legally.
Biery’s opinion, though laden with factual mistakes, included his diatribe against the government for what he considers poorly planned enforcement of the nation’s border and immigration laws.
Biery claimed the case, “has its genesis in the ill conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”
Reports claimed the 5-year-old and his father were taken into custody during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis when the child arrived home from preschool.
School officials claimed he was taken from a running car and told to knock on the family’s door.
Law-enforcement officials said when they took the 5-year-old into custody that the father had abandoned him and he could not be left alone and unattended.