5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, asylum seekers who have been arrested final week in Minnesota, have been ordered to be launched by a federal choose in Texas on Saturday.
U.S. District Decide Fred Biery ordered the boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, launched from the immigration detention middle at Dilley “as quickly as practicable” however no later than Feb. 3.
“Any potential or anticipated elimination or switch of Petitioners below this current detention is prohibited,” the choose wrote in his order.
A screenshot of U.S. District Decide Fred Biery Jan. 31 order.
U.S. District Court docket for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division
The boy was apprehended by immigration officers shortly after arriving house from preschool whereas his father was of their driveway, college officers mentioned final week.
Each have been taken to a federal detention facility in Texas.
That they had a pending asylum case however no order of deportation directing that they be faraway from the USA, ABC Information beforehand reported.
The Division of Homeland Safety alleged the daddy deserted his son when federal brokers approached to arrest him. Nonetheless, that account differs from what the household’s lawyer and faculties officers mentioned occurred.
“One other grownup dwelling within the house was outdoors and begged the brokers to allow them to deal with the small little one, however was refused,” officers from Conejo Ramos’ college mentioned.
Marcos Charles, the highest ICE official in Minneapolis, alleged that folks dwelling within the house refused to take the boy when brokers approached the door.
“We’ll implement the regulation because it’s written, however we’ll go above and past to reunite households, as a result of that’s who we’re,” Charles mentioned.
Biery had quickly blocked the elimination of the boy and his father from the district in Texas pending the habeas case difficult their detention.
Folks protest towards Immigration and Customs Enforcement as they march towards the South Texas Household Residential Heart, January 28, 2026 in Dilley, Texas.
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Within the order releasing Liam and his father, Biery mentioned the case “has its genesis within the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented authorities pursuit of every day deportation quotas, apparently even when it requires traumatizing kids.”
“Observing human habits confirms that for some amongst us, the perfidious lust for unbridled energy and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency,” the choose wrote. “And the rule of regulation be damned.”
Decide Biery mentioned that the daddy and son in the end could “return to their house nation, involuntarily or by self-deportation,” however added that it ought to be a outcome “by a extra orderly and humane coverage than at present in place.”
The choose concluded his opinion with a photograph of the five-year-old when he was detained.
The superintendent of the varsity district attended by Liam has spoken with the household, in response to a press release from the district.
“Columbia Heights Public Colleges is so blissful to listen to the announcement that Liam and his father might be launched and returned house,” the district mentioned. “We would like all kids to be launched from detention facilities and the reunification of households who’ve been unjustly separated.”
-ABC Information’ Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.
