00:00Five-year-old Liam Cunejo-Ramos is back home in Minneapolis after a federal judge on Saturday
00:06ordered him and his father to be released from a Texas immigration detention center.
00:11The pair were arrested in an immigration raid in Minnesota last month,
00:14despite entering the U.S. legally as asylum applicants.
00:19Texas Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro says he picked the pair up from the detention facility
00:23Saturday night and accompanied them back to Minnesota.
00:26Hours after they were released, protesters gathered outside a facility,
00:31calling for changes to immigration policies.
00:34I think that we need just one person showing up, two people showing up to these things.
00:42And Liam was released this morning and they flew him back to Minneapolis,
00:48which is what this protest was about.
00:50But it was because I think there was enough public pressure
00:53and I think we just need to continue to put public pressure on these agencies
00:59because that's how we make change.
01:01A viral photo of Liam in a blue bunny hat outside his home with federal agents
01:06has fueled public concern about the family's case and the actions of immigration agents.
01:12According to the Columbia Heights School District,
01:14he was among four students detained by immigration officers.
01:18Members of the Ramesses community anticipated their return.
01:21So we're here to show our love and support only as Liam being back to Minnesota,
01:27being released from everything that he's been through.
01:31Us having a five-year-old, I just couldn't imagine what the mom has been going through.
01:38We've already had ICE pulling, trying to pull observers out of their car this morning.
01:44So while we have really good news and a ray of light that we have some family members coming back,
01:51ICE is still here this morning in Columbia Heights.
01:54They don't care.
01:56They have their quotas.
01:57They don't care.
01:58So that is really hard to really celebrate for one family and know we need more media attention for every family.
02:06Judge Fred Beery sharply criticized the government's tactics,
02:11calling the push for deportation quotas ill-conceived.
02:15He said that the use of administrative warrants issued by officials, not judges,
02:20amounts to the fox guarding the henhouse.
02:23The Paris release comes as Democrat lawmakers and some Republicans
02:26renew calls for changes to immigration enforcement,
02:30while congressional talks over homeland security funding remain stalled.
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