Trump policy which Americans overwhelmingly oppose.
A five-year-old boy and his father were back in
on Sunday after being released from a Texas immigration detention center where they were held for more than a week,
US House representative Joaquin Castro.
“Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack. Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam,”
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias were
by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on 20 January.
A viral photo of the five-year-old preschooler wearing a bunny hat and a plaid coat sparked outrage across the country after claims that the child, who was arrested on the driveway of his home, was used as bait to try to arrest his mother.
On Saturday, a
the five-year-old boy and his father be released from the detention center, saying: “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.”
During the day of the arrest, the five-year-old was returning from school with his father when immigration agents pulled him from their car near their home in Columbia Heights, a suburb of Minneapolis, according to the school district.
“This family is following US legal parameters and has an active asylum case with no order of deportation,” said Zena Stenvik, superintendent of the Columbia Heights public school district, in a statement on 21 January. “I have viewed the legal paperwork with my own eyes. Why detain a five-year-old? You cannot tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal.”