{"id":154241,"date":"2026-02-06T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/154241\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:40:11","slug":"federal-government-seeks-to-end-5-year-old-liam-ramos-asylum-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/154241\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government seeks to end 5-year-old Liam Ramos’ asylum claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Credit: Courtesy \/ Joaquin Castro<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security filed a motion Wednesday to expedite deportation proceedings against Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, according to the family\u2019s attorney.<\/p>\n

The family\u2019s case is being handled by immigration attorney Danielle Molliver with Nwokocha & Operana Law Offices.<\/p>\n

A hearing is scheduled for Friday, although Molliver is requesting more time to respond. She called DHS\u2019s motion \u201cretaliatory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramos is the 5-year-old whose detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents late last month triggered national outrage. The boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, were returned home to Minnesota last weekend after a scalding opinion from U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered their release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children,\u201d Biery wrote in his opinion.<\/p>\n

Ramos and his father are from Ecuador and entered the United States in December 2024. Upon arriving at a recognized port of entry in Texas, they presented themselves to border officials and applied for asylum through the CBP One app, according to a press release from U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett<\/a>, D-Dallas, announcing her visit with them at their detention facility.<\/p>\n

U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, who escorted Ramos all the way home from Dilley\u2019s South Texas Family Residential Center, posted a video to Instagram Friday encouraging his followers to \u201ckeep speaking up\u201d about the boy and the issues facing immigrants ensnared in the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation system.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Liam] was traumatized at Dilley, but now the Trump administration is trying to take him away again,\u201d Castro said while traveling to Pearsall\u2019s South Texas ICE Processing Center, a detention facility for adults.<\/p>\n

Also located about an hour away from San Antonio, the Pearsall facility is at the center of complaints relating to medical care, access to attorneys and food.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been 911 calls over the months that have come from there of different very troubling, alarming episodes and so we\u2019re going to go check it out,\u201d said Castro, referring to a June article by the Current<\/a> detailing the flurry of calls from inside the lockup, including reports of suicide attempts, sexual assault and other disturbing allegations.<\/p>\n

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