{"id":6955,"date":"2026-02-09T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6955"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:05:05","slug":"judge-orders-5-year-old-liam-conejo-ramos-and-his-dad-released-from-ice-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/09\/judge-orders-5-year-old-liam-conejo-ramos-and-his-dad-released-from-ice-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad released from ICE detention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of a 5-year-old boy and his father who were detained by ICE agents in Minnesota and transferred to a facility in Texas. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were detained by federal agents outside their Minnesota home on January 20, 2026, sparking intense national debate over the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration enforcement. School officials and neighbors alleged that agents used the preschooler as &#8220;bait&#8221; by instructing him to knock on his door to lure his mother out, a claim the Department of Homeland Security vehemently denied as an &#8220;abject lie.&#8221; While the family&#8217;s lawyer stated they had an active asylum case, federal officials maintained the father was in the country illegally and was the primary target of the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 31, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-minnesota-boy-detained-a1ef2144c03a0136ef123f5a3685ee44\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of a 5-year-old boy and his father who were detained by ICE agents in Minnesota and transferred to a facility in Texas. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were detained by federal agents outside their Minnesota home on January 20, 2026, sparking intense national debate over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-and-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7065,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions\/7065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}