Two Weeks in ICE Custody Highlight a 5-Year-Old’s Ordeal

A 5-year-old boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, spent about two weeks in a Texas ICE family detention center with his asylum-seeker father after agents detained them outside their Minnesota home. The child reportedly became feverish, vomited, and grew lethargic, and his father says medication was not provided; DHS denied the illness claims. A federal judge ordered their release, and the family flew back to Minnesota amid a measles outbreak at the facility and ongoing debate over detention conditions and enforcement. The case drew attention from lawmakers who visited Liam and highlighted broader criticisms of Trump-era family detention, while DHS maintained Liam was not the target of the operation and that the parents violated immigration laws. Their asylum case remains under review.