A Minnesota preschooler detained in Texas with his father can’t be imminently deported, a federal judge dominated Monday.
Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, was taken away from his household’s suburban Minneapolis driveway final week after federal brokers apprehended his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed Liam’s father is an “illegal alien” from Ecuador and mentioned brokers took the boy with them after the father mentioned he needed Liam to stick with him.
But an legal professional for Liam’s household mentioned Conejo dedicated no crimes and adopted “all the established protocols” for legally searching for asylum in the US, together with “showing up for their court hearings.”
Liam and his dad have been taken throughout the nation to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas — an ICE detention facility for households.
The father has filed a lawsuit in opposition to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, US Attorney General Pam Bondi and different federal officers.
On Monday, a federal judge dominated “that any possible or anticipated removal or transfer of Petitioners Adrian Conejo Arias and L.C.R., a minor child, is IMMEDIATELY STAYED until further order from this Court,” a courtroom doc states.
In addition, federal officers “SHALL NOT TRANSFER Petitioners Adrian Conejo Arias and L.C.R., a minor child, outside of this judicial district during the pendency of this litigation and until further Order of this Court,” the ruling says.
NCS has reached out to an legal professional for the household and DHS for remark.
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