{"id":14903,"date":"2026-02-01T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/judge-orders-release-of-5-year-old-father-detained-in-minnesota-ice-raid\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:14:46","slug":"judge-orders-release-of-5-year-old-father-detained-in-minnesota-ice-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/judge-orders-release-of-5-year-old-father-detained-in-minnesota-ice-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders release of 5-year-old, father detained in Minnesota ICE raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>DETROIT <span class=\"cf0\">&ndash; <\/span>A federal judge has ordered the release of Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son, Liam Conejo Ramos, whom immigration officers detained during a Minnesota raid.<\/p>\n<p>The boy <span class=\"cf0\">&ndash;<\/span> seen in a now viral photo that showed him wearing a blue bunny hat outside his house as federal agents stood nearby <span class=\"cf0\">&ndash;<\/span> was one of four students detained by immigration officials earlier this month in a Minneapolis suburb, according to the Columbia Heights Public School District.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children,&rdquo; US District Judge Fred Biery wrote in a ruling published on Saturday (Jan 31).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Ecuadorean boy and his father, who entered the United States legally as asylum applicants, were sent to a family detention facility in Dilley, Texas, their attorney Marc Prokosch previously told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Prokosch and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Armed and masked officers detained two 17-year-olds and a 10-year-old in addition to Liam, school district Superintendent Zena Stenvik said last week.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:729119]]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Judge orders release of 5-year-old, father detained in Minnesota ICE raid<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT &ndash; A federal judge has ordered the release of Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son, Liam Conejo Ramos, whom immigration officers detained during a Minnesota raid. The boy &ndash; seen in a now viral photo that showed him wearing a blue bunny hat outside his house as federal agents stood nearby &ndash; was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/judge-orders-release-of-5-year-old-father-detained-in-minnesota-ice-raid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Judge orders release of 5-year-old, father detained in Minnesota ICE raid&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}