Overview
- Speaking in their first in-person interview Monday, the parents said Liam now fears ICE, startles at police, and sees a psychologist for trauma.
- An immigration judge has ordered the family removed after terminating their asylum case, according to their lawyer and a DHS statement.
- The Justice Department is appealing the federal court order that freed Liam and his father, and the case is now before the Board of Immigration Appeals with the family remaining in the U.S. during that review.
- ICE says the father tried to flee and abandoned the child and that agents asked the mother to take him, while the parents deny those claims and say officers used their son as bait.
- The January Minneapolis arrest unfolded during Operation Metro Surge, a high-intensity enforcement push that the administration later scaled back after two civilians were fatally shot by federal agents.