Texas Reps. Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett hours after visiting 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father in the Dilley facility. Image: Greg Harman
Federal and state elected Texas Democrats gathered on the steps of San Antonio City Hall Wednesday to call for the release of Liam Ramos. Deceleration Video
Saying that the case of Liam Conejo Ramos is "emblematic" of the entire U.S. immigration detention system, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro and other Texas Democrats gathered in San Antonio on Wednesday called for Ramos's release and the dismantling of ICE.
“Liam Ramos should be release immediately,” Castro told a crowd gathered outside San Antonio City Hall to applause.
Days before the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, federal officers grabbed 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos on his way home from school in that city. In spite of active asylum claims, both the child and his father were then sent to a family detention center outside San Antonio in Dilley, Texas.
“His father says that Liam has been very depressed since he’s been at Dilley. That he hasn’t been eating well," Castro said. "I was concerned, you see how he appears in that photo. His energy. He seemed lethargic. His father said that Liam has been sleepig a lot."
Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
The struggle against ICE has picked up in Texas since the killings of legal observers in Minneapolis and transporting of 5-year-old Liam Ramos to CoreCivic’s Dilley family detention center.
The struggle against ICE has picked up in Texas since the killings of legal observers in Minneapolis and transporting of 5-year-old Liam Ramos to CoreCivic’s Dilley family detention center.
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