“Bring Liam Home”: Inside the Growing Outcry Over Family Detention

Five-year old Liam is depressed, refuses food, and sleeps a lot while detained with his father.

Congressman Joaquin Castro visits Liam Ramos at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. Photo courtesy of Castro’s Instagram.

At a press conference in Texas today, members of Congress, advocates, and community leaders stood shoulder to shoulder with a single demand: Bring Liam home.

There’s a particular cruelty in being taken from your life and told nothing about what comes next and that’s the thread running through the story of Liam Conejo Ramos, a five‑year‑old boy now held in federal immigration custody at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley.

The press conference, led by Reps. Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett who visited the Dilley detention center, alongside community advocates, came amid renewed concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) practices—particularly the targeting of families through courts, schools, and homes.

“This is not an isolated case,” Castro said. “Liam is not the first, and he won’t be the last.”

Liam’s detention has ign…