"U.S. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not target or arrest Liam Conejo Ramos, and that his "alleged mother" refused to take him after his father's apprehension. His father told officers he wanted Liam to be with him, she said."
""The Trump administration is committed to restoring the rule of law and common sense to our immigration system, and will continue to fight for the arrest, detention, and removal of aliens who have no right to be in this country," McLaughlin said."
"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."
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, were detained by immigration officers in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20 and taken to a detention facility in Dilley, Texas. Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro picked them up in Dilley and escorted them back to Minnesota, with Katherine Schneider confirming their arrival. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said ICE did not target the child and that his "alleged mother" refused to take him after his father's apprehension, while the father told officers he wanted Liam to be with him. Images of the boy in a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack drew public outrage, and U.S. District Judge Fred Biery criticized the government's deportation quotas as ill-conceived and traumatizing children.
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