The Department of Homeland Security filed a motion Wednesday to expedite deportation proceedings against Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, according to the family’s attorney.
The family’s case is being handled by immigration attorney Danielle Molliver with Nwokocha & Operana Law Offices.
A hearing is scheduled for Friday, although Molliver is requesting more time to respond. She called DHS’s motion “retaliatory.”
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.
“The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children,” Biery wrote in his opinion.
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, D-Dallas, announcing her visit with them at their detention facility.
U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, who escorted Ramos all the way home from Dilley’s South Texas Family Residential Center, posted a video to Instagram Friday encouraging his followers to “keep speaking up” about the boy and the issues facing immigrants ensnared in the Trump administration’s mass deportation system.
“[Liam] was traumatized at Dilley, but now the Trump administration is trying to take him away again,” Castro said while traveling to Pearsall’s South Texas ICE Processing Center, a detention facility for adults.
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.
“There have been 911 calls over the months that have come from there of different very troubling, alarming episodes and so we’re going to go check it out,” said Castro, referring to a June article by the Current detailing the flurry of calls from inside the lockup, including reports of suicide attempts, sexual assault and other disturbing allegations.
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