The preschooler, Liam Conejo Ramos, was removed from the family’s running car, said Zena Stenvik, superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb. The father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, and his young son are being held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, an ICE facility for families, Prokosch said. “Following the mother’s abandonment of the child, officers abided by the father’s wishes to keep the child with him. Ramos isn’t the only case in the school district about seven miles north of Minneapolis. Three other students have also been taken by ICE, school officials said.

Source: CNN January 22, 2026 21:42 UTC