00:00A U.S. federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son, Liam Conejo Ramos, who were detained during a Minnesota immigration raid earlier this month.
00:14The Columbia Heights Public School District said Liam was one of four students taken into custody by immigration officers in a Minneapolis suburb.
00:22In his ruling, District Judge Fred Beery criticized the government's ill-conceived and incompetently implemented deportation policies, saying they inflict trauma on children and should be carried out in a more humane and orderly manner.
00:38The Ecuadorian father and son, who entered the United States legally as asylum applicants, had been held at a family detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
00:47Columbia Heights Superintendent Zena Stenvik said Liam was among the children detained, including two 17-year-olds and a 10-year-old.
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