Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, who has sought asylum in the United States, were released from a federal immigration detention facility on Sunday and flew Delta Air Lines back to Minneapolis, where the boy enjoyed a first class breakfast and a cockpit visit.
DHS says he took off running, abandoning his son, while Arias says he was only a few feet ahead and desperately trying to find a family member who could take Liam. Per DHS, ICE agents attempted to hand over Liam to his mother, but she refused to accept custody of the child, a statement the family disputes.
Arias and Liam were taken into federal custody and transferred to an immigration detention facility in Texas outside San Antonio. On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, a 78-year-old Clinton appointee, issued a scathing opinion ordering the release of the two:
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