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Federal Judge Orders Release of 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE
A federal judge ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from an immigration detention facility outside San Antonio,Texas,on Saturday,January 31,2026. Ramos, who became a symbol of criticism against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a photo of him with a blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack circulated widely, was detained earlier this month in a Minneapolis suburb. The detention sparked significant public outrage.
Unconstitutional Detention Ruled
Judge Fred Biery of the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that the detention of Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, was unconstitutional. Both are asylum seekers. The judge’s opinion strongly condemned the actions of immigration agents, stating they were “traumatizing children.”
Biery specifically criticized the detention as stemming from “the ill-conceived and
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