Judge orders US to release 5-year-old and dad taken into custody in Minnesota crackdown

January 31, 2026

A judge on Saturday ordered the U.S. to release 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from a Texas detention center where they were taken after being detained in a Minneapolis suburb last month.

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