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Rep. 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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Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, was arrested by the immigration police on 20 January before being held in a family detention centre in Texas.

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The arrest of Liam Conejo Ramos on 20 January in Minneapolis (northern) had moved beyond the United States, mainly because of a photo showing the little boy, a rabbit-eared hat on his head and a bag on his back, arrested by an agent dressed in black, visibly frightened...

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