From Daily Mail: A Texas Congressman gave a look inside the detention center where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took a five-year-old Minnesota boy after he was controversially detained.
Photos of Liam Ramos went viral after he was seen wearing a bunny-shaped beanie with tears streaming down his face while being held by his backpack, as ICE agents descended on his home and arrested his father.
Amid protests and accusations the boy was kidnapped, GOP Representative Tony Gonzales shared a video of the conditions of the center Ramos was taken to in Dilley, Texas.
“In the coming days, you’ll see a lot of grandstanding by politicians at the Dilley ICE Center in my district, #TX23. It’s all for show. I’ve been there & seen the state-of-the-art facilities & protocols that @ICEgov follows.”
“Our ICE agents & CBP personnel are doing their jobs, & yet again, Democrats are doing everything they can to spin the truth against law enforcement,” he added.
Responding to accusations that the Dilley facility was operating under grim conditions, including limited access to water, according to CNN, Gonzales showed in the 30-second clip that children were well cared for. They were seen reading, studying, and using computers in a fully-equipped library. They were also seen in a classroom, gymnasium, picnic area, and basketball court.
In each shot, the children appear healthy, content, and attended by adults.
In the coming days, you’ll see a lot of grandstanding by politicians at the Dilley ICE Center in my district, #TX23. It’s all for show.
I’ve been there & seen the state-of-the-art facilities & protocols that @ICEgov follows.
Our ICE agents & CBP personnel are doing their… pic.twitter.com/9fEAOEEyIW
— Rep. Tony Gonzales (@RepTonyGonzales) January 23, 2026
The arrest of Ramos’ father became controversial after a viral video showed the young boy visibly upset and surrounded by agents during the incident. But Vice President JD Vance explained that officers were forced to detain the boy after his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, “abandoned” his son and attempted to flee.
ICE said its agents “kept the child safe in the bitter cold” after they made multiple attempts to get Ramos’s family in the house to take custody of him. ICE says the family “refused.”
The family’s lawyer, Marc Prokosch, claims Arias never attempted to flee the scene. According to Prokosch, Ramos and his father entered the US from Ecuador in December 2024 and had a pending asylum case. The family has no deportation order or criminal record, the lawyer says.
After he was arrested, Arias wanted to keep his son with him and they were taken to the Dilley, Texas facility, designed to house migrant families together, approximately 1,300 miles way from where they lived in Minnesota.
Video obtained by CBS News shows the moment ICE agents took 5-year-old Liam Ramos in Minneapolis. The boy was taken with his father while in their driveway after just arriving home from his preschool classroom.
School officials say the child was used as bait to knock on the… pic.twitter.com/BdyqG2t6Ni
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 23, 2026
Read more at Daily Mail
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