Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, and his father returned to their home in a Minneapolis suburb after being detained by U.S. immigration officers at a Texas facility, a lawmaker said Sunday.
A federal judge Saturday ordered the release of Adrian Conejo Arias and his son, whom immigration officers detained during a Minnesota raid. U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, wrote in a social media post that he picked them up Saturday night at the detention facility and escorted them back to Minnesota on Sunday.
"Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack," Castro said. "We won't stop until all children and families are home."
A photo that went viral last month shows Liam wearing a blue bunny hat outside his house with federal agents standing nearby. He was one of four students detained by immigration officials in a Minneapolis suburb, according to the Columbia Heights Public School District.
The Ecuadorean boy and his father, who entered the United States legally as asylum applicants, had been held in a detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
