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Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, following a court order mandating their release, a lawyer familiar with their case told CBS News on Sunday. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery on Saturday directed government officials to release Adrian Alexander Conejo Ramos and his son, who were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month in Minnesota, from detention "as soon as practicable."

From The Hill newspaper, A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered the release of the 5-year-old boy and father who were transported to a detention center in the state amid the Trump administration’s immigration operations in Minnesota. The judge is based in San Antonio, Texas. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery (Clinton appointee) issued the ruling in a much-followed case. The date on the judge’s order is February 31. Everyone but a Clinton-appointed judge would know that February 31 is a date that cannot exist in the Gregorian calendar. So that renders the order null and void, correct? Fittingly, the...

Attorneys at a hearing to determine who would receive temporary custody of the 5-year-old boy told a judge Friday morning that his mother and an aunt had been notified that the hearing would take place but that neither were in the courtroom to speak on his behalf. His father hadn’t yet been found, and the grandmother who abandoned him Tuesday at Kohl’s when she bolted from a shoplifting stop was still on the run from law enforcement, Sedgwick County Assistant District Attorney Amanda Marino said. The judge placed the child in the temporary custody of the state.

<p>SALT LAKE CITY — He says his name is Jacob; he's 3 years old, and someone left him in the toy department of a ShopKo store.</p> <p>Police are trying to find the boy's family, but haven't had any luck yet.</p>