Nigeria, Feb. 6 -- Liam Conejo Ramos, five, a preschooler at Colombia Heights Public School, Minnesota, returned home on January 20, 2026. He might have looked forward to the warm embrace of his mother, but in the drive way of his home, United States, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, agents captured him and his father, Adrian.

The family had entered the US legally from Ecuador and are undergoing a legal process on their stay. But the agents were not interested. Another adult in the house, who was outside, offered to take custody of the child, but the agents refused, and two of them took the child to detention in Texas, 1,300 miles away from his home.

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