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Trump Administration Denies Expediting Deportation of Boy, 5

DHS official insists situation is 'not ... expedited removal'

(Newser) - Federal authorities have denied attempting to expedite an end to asylum claims by the family of a 5-year-old boy who was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown that has shaken the Minneapolis area, the AP reports. Images of Liam Conejo Ramos wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack...

Liam Is Home, but Maybe Not for Long

DHS seeks to end asylum claims of 5-year-old Minn. boy at center of ICE storm

(Newser) - Federal immigration officials are moving to fast-track the deportation case of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, according to their attorney. The federal government filed a motion on Wednesday to speed up removal proceedings and shut down the Minnesota family's asylum bid, said their legal team, per MPR...

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ICE Detainee, 5, Goes Home

Liam Conejo Ramos wants to see his mother and brother, says his father

(Newser) - A 5-year-old boy and his father who were held in a Texas immigration facility returned to Minneapolis on Sunday after a federal judge ordered their release. Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, asylum seekers from Ecuador, flew home from San Antonio under a court order requiring their...

Judge Orders Administration to Release 5-Year-Old, Father

Ruling calls the immigration detentions unconstitutional and denounces government 'cruelty'

(Newser) - Condemning what he called the Trump administration's "imposition of cruelty," a federal judge on Saturday ordered that a 5-year-old Minnesota boy and his father be released from immigration detention. US District Judge Fred Biery of the Western District of Texas ruled their seizure unconstitutional and directed that...

Lawmakers See Boy, 5, Taken to Texas by ICE

Liam Conejo Ramos wants to go back to school, Democrat says

(Newser) - Texas Democrats Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett on Wednesday visited a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father at a Texas federal detention center, in a case that has stirred anger over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and given fuel to Democrats and others who are pushing back against ICE'...

Judge Blocks Feds From Moving Detained 5-Year-Old

Order keeps boy and father detained together at Texas facility, at least for now

(Newser) - A 5-year-old boy swept up in an immigration arrest in Minnesota can't be deported or moved for now, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The temporary restraining order shields Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, from removal or transfer outside the Western District of Texas, where...

More Than $300K Raised to Help 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE

Community donations surge to cover legal costs for Liam's release

(Newser) - Donations for Liam Ramos, the Minnesota kindergartner now being held in a Texas immigration lockup had surged past $300,000 as of early Monday. A GoFundMe titled "Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home" was launched by organizer Sarai Orquiz, who says she set it up at the request of the...

ICE Accused of Using 5-Year-Old as 'Bait'

DHS denies Minnesota school district's account of events

(Newser) - A Minnesota school superintendent says immigration agents didn't just detain one of her students—they made the 5-year-old knock on his own front door to help them find more people. Columbia Heights Superintendent Zena Stenvik said Wednesday that masked federal agents stopped Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway Tuesday...

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