Some detainees at a family detention center in Texas have been “being locked in their room” Wednesday simply as US Rep. Joaquin Castro was headed there to satisfy with a detained 5-year-old Minnesota boy and his father, the lawmaker stated, citing attorneys.
In a video posted on Facebook, the congressman from Texas stated he “heard from some of the attorneys that their clients are having trouble – that they’re being locked in their room. They’re being kept on lockdown” at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dilley.
NCS has reached out to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for remark. CoreCivic, which manages the South Texas Family Residential Center, referred inquiries to DHS.
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.
Liam and his father have been flown throughout the nation to the ICE detention facility for households in Dilley.
The Department of Homeland Security stated Liam’s father is an “illegal alien” from Ecuador and stated brokers took the boy with them after the father stated he needed Liam to stick with him.
But an legal professional for Liam’s household stated Conejo dedicated no crimes and adopted “all the established protocols” for legally in search of asylum within the United States, together with “showing up for their court hearings.”
Judge says Liam and his dad can’t be imminently deported
Liam’s father has filed a lawsuit towards DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, US Attorney General Pam Bondi and different federal officers.
On Monday, a federal choose 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 court docket 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.
When requested for a response the Conejo’s lawsuit and the choose’s ruling, DHS reiterated that “ICE did NOT target or arrest a child.”
DHS didn’t reply NCS’s questions on whether or not the company has any documentation to refute the household’s legal professional’s statements that Conejo was legally following asylum-seeking protocols and by no means dedicated any crimes.
NCS’s Alisha Ebrahimji and Caroll Alvarado contributed to this report.