Ecuador requests information from the US about the child detained in the hands of the federal anti-immigration service

The Government of Ecuador has formally requested information from the United States on the situation of little Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old boy detained in the city of Minnesota during an operation carried out against his father by agents of the North American federal anti-immigration service, ICE, and whose image, flanked by agents and about to enter a police vehicle, has become one of the main representations of the controversial performance of this operation.

The vice president of the United States, JD Vance, had to defend the actions of his agents in this case and argued that the agents were actually chasing the child’s father, Adrián Conejo, and had to take care of the little boy so as not to leave him out in the open in the middle of the cold wave that is shaking the city these days.

At the moment, Liam and his father are in the state of Texas, in an ICE “immigration processing center”, as confirmed by the Ecuadorian Consulate there and the Ecuadorian authorities “maintain permanent contact with the ICE Officer in charge of said center to monitor the well-being of the minor and his father.”

The US authorities asked Liam’s mother to take custody of her son but she refused out of fear of being deported as well. According to Pastor Sergio Amezcua, who has been assisting the mother since then, the woman was “terrified,” he explained to CNN.

The Consulate has requested information from the US to find out when the planned court hearing will take place to finish defining the immigration status of the father and son. Likewise, the Ecuadorian authorities are in contact with the family’s private lawyer because the minor’s mother has not yet “required support from the Consulate” despite the fact that “he has made all his assistance available.”

The presence of ICE in Minneapolis, as has happened before in other American cities, has been responded to by the population with strikes and protests like the one this Friday, when tens of thousands of people braved temperatures of up to -23ºC to express their rejection and support for the family of the woman Renee Good, who was shot dead by a federal agent on January 7.