The Department of Homeland Security is trying to expedite the deportation of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, the family’s attorney told MPR News.
Democratic lawmakers, including Rep. Joaquin Castro, the lawmaker who escorted the boy and his father back to Minnesota after they were released from detention last weekend, decried the effort.
“The Trump administration is trying to take him away again. The Department of Justice has filed for expedited deportation, which would take him away again, and so please don’t stop speaking up,” Castro, whose home state of Texas is where the two were detained for 12 days, said in a video posted to social media Friday. “Do everything that you can because your voice has made a difference, it is making a difference, and it matters to the lives of these folks.”