5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos<\/a> in the driveway of his home in Minneapolis this week during the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown in the state. The boy was later put on a plane with his father to a family detention facility in Texas, where they remain.\n <\/p>\n\n During the encounter with Tipan-Echeverria and his daughter, DHS said the father was \u201cdriving erratically with a child in the vehicle.\u201d The father would then park the vehicle when federal agents attempted to take him into custody; however, \u201che refused multiple lawful commands to open his door or lower his window,\u201d the agency said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The toddler and her father had just returned home from the store and were inside their vehicle when ICE agents entered the backyard and driveway area of the home \u201cwithout a warrant,\u201d the affidavit says. One agent \u201cbroke the glass on the window\u201d of Tipan-Echeverria\u2019s vehicle while the toddler was also inside before the father and daughter exited the car, the affidavit says.\n <\/p>\n
\n CNN has reached out to DHS to inquire about the removal of the father and toddler to Texas, and the claim that agents had taken both without a warrant.\n <\/p>\n
\n Video from the incident, which took place just after 1 p.m., shows people surrounding armed and masked federal agents and what appeared to be a federal vehicle. One man was heard yelling, \u201cThey were carrying a child in that!\u201d seemingly referring to the federal vehicle.\n <\/p>\n
\n Some of the people at the scene started backing away as federal agents deployed what seemed to be a chemical agent. As the federal agents drove away, protesters continued to yell at them. \u201cHelp him!\u201d one person yelled out.\n <\/p>\n
\n Roughly 120 people \u201csurrounded the agents blocking them in and preventing exit\u201d during the arrest, DHS said. \u201cAgitators in the crowd then began to throw rocks and garbage cans toward the agents and child,\u201d prompting agents to deploy crowd control measures to \u201csafely clear the area,\u201d the statement continued.\n <\/p>\n
\n DHS noted that obstructing and assaulting law enforcement is a felony and federal crime.\n <\/p>\n
\n Federal agents attempted to give the child to the mother, \u201cwho was in the area, but she refused,\u201d DHS claimed. Federal agents \u201ctook care of the child who the mother would not take,\u201d before the father and child were \u201creunited\u201d at a federal facility, DHS said.\n <\/p>\n
\n However, the family\u2019s lawyer said the child\u2019s mother was standing outside and was near her husband as the couple were \u201ccalling out to each other\u201d and the father tried to bring the child to her mother, but ICE agents \u201cwould not allow\u201d it, the affidavit said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Upon seeing ICE agents approach her, the mother stepped back inside the house and was \u201cterrified,\u201d according to the affidavit. At that point, the father and his child were placed in the back of an ICE vehicle, which \u201cdid not have a car seat,\u201d the affidavit said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The allegations from DHS about the girl\u2019s mother refusing to take custody of her child echo a similar statement from the agency in the case of Liam, saying the boy\u2019s mother also refused to take custody of him. But Liam\u2019s mother, according to Pastor Sergio Amezcua, who has been helping her with the case, was \u201cterrified\u201d of the agents outside her door.\n <\/p>\n
\n In the case of Tipan-Echeverria and his daughter, attorneys for the family said: \u201cNeedless to say, she has no criminal history,\u201d in an emergency petition to immediately release the toddler from federal custody to Kelley, who signed a notarized delegation of parental authority with the mother and custodial guardian.\n <\/p>\n
\n The court granted the petition to immediately release the child, transferring custody of her temporarily to the attorney \u201cfor the purpose of retrieving the infant from immigration detention,\u201d by 9:30 p.m. Thursday, the court documents said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The court order determined \u201cthe risk of irreparable harm to maintain child in custody under the circumstances described in the pleadings are overwhelming.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The father and his child were on a commercial airline flight to Texas by 8:30 p.m. that same day, despite the order issued at 8:11 p.m. that they should not be removed from Minnesota, their lawyer said in the affidavit, citing a conversation with a DHS counsel.\n <\/p>\n
\n The agency then told the family\u2019s attorney that it would fly the child back to Minnesota on Friday, the affidavit says. Kelley, the family lawyer, said she had not been able to contact her clients since they were taken into custody, according to the affidavit.\n <\/p>\n
\n A federal court order has barred ICE from sending the father outside of Minnesota while court proceedings play out, Kelley\u2019s statement said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2-year-old girl was taken into ICE custody with her father on Thursday in Minneapolis and flown to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-427197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}