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5-Year-Old Boy Abducted By ICE Gets Wings From Pilot On Flight Home To Minneapolis In Sweet Viral Video
The family’s lawyer, Marc Prokosch, told the press that Ramos and his family are originally from Ecuador and presented themselves to border officers in Texas in December 2024 to apply for asylum. He stressed they "are not illegal aliens" and that "they came legally, and are pursuing a legal pathway.”
Zena Stenvik, superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb, said Ramos was taken into custody in his family’s driveway after his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, drove him home. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Arias was the focus of a "targeted" ICE operation.
Ramos' case horrified the country when Stenvik said "another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let them take care of the small child, but was refused." Instead, an agent “led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door, asking to be let in, in order to see if anyone else was home—essentially using a 5-year-old as bait."
When asked how he is feeling, the boy, speaking to ABC News' John Quiñones in an exclusive interview as the pair flew home, told ABC News in Spanish, "Good."
His father said:
"Liam is very happy to be going back. He's going to see his mom and his brother again."
And Ramos received a new souvenir on the flight—pilot wings from the pilots themselves, per Quiñones:
"Some very kind pilots on the @delta flight from San Antonio - Minneapolis today. 5 year old, Liam Conejo Ramos was in Heaven. What a difference 24 hours make. From DHS detention in Texas - to this. Being a kid again. And now, Liam is home again.
You can see footage of the moment below.
Texas Democratic Representative Joaquín Castro later published photographs showing Ramos had made it home safely.
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Castro shared the following message to X:
"Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack."
"Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home."
He also shared a picture of a letter he wrote to the boy in which he encourages him to remember that "America became a prosperous nation because of immigrants, not in spite of them."
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Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, who worked diligently with Castro to secure Ramos' release, also shared a photo of her own, writing:
"Liam is home now and we are grateful to @JoaquinCastrotx for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam."
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Many were moved to see the boy had returned home safely.
In remarks to ABC News, Conejo Arias said the federal government should not "be so unfair with the Latino population," saying that "many times, it’s unjust that they arrest people who only come to this country to work hard and help their families get ahead." He stressed that "we were also arrested unjustly."
He said agents in Texas denied his son medication when he got sick and that "the doctor said she didn't have any to give us." He described conditions at Dilley Detention Center as "not great."
Earlier, in an order releasing Conejo Arias and his son, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery said the case "has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children."
He condemned the actions of the Trump administration, saying that "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency."
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin insisted in a statement after the ruling that "ICE did NOT target or arrest a child." She accused Conejo Arias of "abandoning his child," an account that differs from what Conejo Arias, his family's attorney, and schools officials said occurred.
Woman In Pink Jacket Who Filmed Alex Pretti's Murder Speaks Out In Emotional Interview
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials claimed Pretti had brandished a weapon and that agents fired “defensive shots,” assertions that have been contradicted by video evidence showing Pretti holding a phone and not brandishing a gun.
The Trump administration's critics have since called out the hypocrisy of officials who've previously praised armed right-wing protesters but are now attacking Pretti, a legal gun owner with a valid Minnesota concealed-carry permit.
Carlson spoke about her own ordeal:
"I chose to be a bystander and film and knew the best thing I could do was stay by this person's side. ... There were no agents around us until my video started playing and then it started happening so rapidly. There really was not a lot of time." ...
"After the shooting, after Alex was taken away by the ambulance, the amount of ICE agents that were on scene became more aggressive, they started brandishing their weapons, they started pushing the crowd toward 27th [Street] and then they started pulling up the yellow tape line. It was very clear they were starting to treat us like we were rioting."
After taking refuge in an apartment building, Carlson said one of her loved ones called to tell her that the authorities "are looking for you" and "you need to get to safety" because "they're looking for the girl in the pink jacket":
"Everyone's like, 'Hide the jacket! So this amazing woman offered to trade coats with me, offered me a head wrap and anything I needed to disguise myself. I have a local place where all of my community was gathering and all of my neighbors I know were gathering and they just said, 'Just come here now.'"
"I was finally safe and I was able to connect with the ACLU, file my report, give them my video, and that is the testimony you see online today. I haven't been able to go home, I'm not able to use my phones, and I'm unable to drive my car. I had my car moved the other day and somebody was following it; my friend was driving it, I was not there."
Carlson began to cry as she recalled the moment she saw ICE agents murder Pretti:
"When he died, I knew it and I felt like I saw it. It was hard to believe that that would happen in my town, in Minneapolis, that I love so much, and to Renee Good, somebody who was new to the Twin Cities. I'm so proud of being here and I'm so proud of living here and it makes me so mad that people are trying to take that away from us."
"He should have never died. He should have never been murdered."
She added:
"I want all of us to feel more comfortable in coming forward and not be threatened by this administration on this level. The more of us that do that, the less of us are individually at risk. This is a community of brave, courageous people, and I'm just being given an opportunity to represent that."
"I appreciate everything that everybody's doing and it takes all of us to make this a safer community again."
As for her decision to wear a pink jacket that day, Carlson said she made a conscious choice to "be pink and glittery and whatever I choose to be and blow a whistle."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
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Many were struck by Carlson's powerful testimony.
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Carlson told CNN that after she saw ICE agents kill Pretti, she watched them "come over to try to perform some type of medical aid by ripping his clothes open with scissors, and then maneuvering his body around like a rag doll, only to discover that it could be because they wanted to count the bullet wounds to see how many they got, like he’s a deer.”
She said she "knew that this was a moment, and we all have to be brave and we all have to take risks, and we’re all going to be given moments to make that decision."
She said she is "grateful to myself and I’m grateful to anybody who was supportive to me after, to make sure I could get to safety and get that video uploaded to the right people.”
People Break Down The Real Reason They Stopped Liking Someone But Never Told Them
This is especially true when you start to realize that certain people are not the people you thought they were.
Lies are always exposed.
The truth will always come out.
Once you see a person for who they really are, there is no going back.
The best thing to do is save yourself.
Redditor OkEagle160 wanted everyone to reveal why they had to let someone go from their lives, so they asked:
"What’s a reason you slowly stopped liking someone but never told them?"
Tuned Out
"They whined too much. If they weren't complaining about something in their own life, it was something in their neighbor's life, or something in the news. I just increasingly tuned them out."
- LucyVialli
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I Gotta Be ME
"I stopped liking them when I realized I couldn't be myself around them anymore. Like I was filtering everything I talked, what I wore, even my laugh. And honestly, that's the loneliest kind of connection."
- cutebogi
"Agreed. I had friends like that; you feel like you can’t be yourself, but you have to put on a mask for them, or else you are judged, made fun of, etc. I hated it and then resented them; they had a whole host of other problems as well. Hope you found better people to spend your time with now."
- TheHoodedWonder
Pinnochio
"Their fibs or embellishments to stories they’d tell just got bigger and bigger until they were outright lies. So bad that neither she nor I could even tell what stories were real or fake."
- advgman
"There's no person I can't stand more than the ones that you can't tell if you've ever met the real person. They're always doing some kind of bit, or worse, just straight-up lying or making stuff up, often just to f*ck with you. I just don't interact with those people anymore, instead of trying to understand them."
- BoysNGrlsNAmerica
"Exactly! I just dropped one of my best friends because she cared SO much about what other people thought about her that her life was an entire lie. Because of that, she was obviously so miserable since she isn’t doing stuff she genuinely likes, and nobody knows the real her. So annoying."
- Sure-Context1647
She had to GO!
"She only talked about herself."
- Tryna_TGS
"Same. And when I quit playing into it, we stopped talking. Became real clear that she was only interested in talking if we were talking about her."
- Gloomy_Ad5020
"Exact same, ended a friendship over this last year because I realized she wasn't matching my effort at all, and only talked about how great she was all the time. I stopped reaching out, and she just never reached out to me again."
- ThrowRA362665
SAY WHAT?!
"When I talk about things that interest me, and they have a look on their face like it’s dumb or weird. They don’t have to be interested in it, but they don’t have to try to make me feel stupid for having an interest."
- PNelley
"I went to visit a friend after she moved into her boyfriend's. I was talking about a band I liked, and she started kind of making fun of me/talking crap about the band. It was only because her boyfriend didn't like it and she wanted to score points with him, or something. I dunno. "
" Funny thing was, she was the one who introduced me to the band a few years before. Like, you might not like them as much anymore, but you used to listen to them all the time. Just because you don't know, doesn't mean you get to sh*t on me for still liking them."
- Dbahnsai
TOXIC
"They were a miserable person. And they wanted everyone around them to be just as miserable all the time."
- StreetAppropriate825
"Misery loves company! I used to work at a homeless shelter, and I saw a lot of trauma bonding and the like, and it never works out, just drags each other down."
- More_Raisin_2894
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They're AMAZING!
"Always bragging for no reason."
- AdmirableSwimming298
"We have one of these jacka**es at work, and I'll never forget the day he was bragging about being able to finance another piece of crap he didn't need, and my other coworker goes, 'Why do you think he gives a sh*t? He's rich,' and the guy finally realized what that expression had been on my face every time. Amused condescension."
- InletUnstart
BYE!
"Well, we got divorced, so telling them is irrelevant. But I first started feeling like I hated him when I realized he didn't even see me as a friend.'
"It was one thing to lose love (people drift apart, I could have understood that eventually). I will never, ever, forgive the person who I considered to be my best friend for just... not caring about me at all that whole time, apparently? It was such systematic lying, and it made every happy memory I'd ever had with them for a decade into some sort of elaborate rug pull where I was the fool for being stupid enough to believe them."
"Really messed with my brain for a while. Oh well, life goes on."
- cloistered_around
Real Old
"Their entire personality and life revolved around getting high. Couldn't do anything without having to smoke first, no matter what. Gets real old, real quick."
- Iama_Kokiri_AMA
"Me with my ex but drinking instead. Legit wanted to drink with his friends every weekend and every day, even when he was with me, nothing but constant comments about how he wanted to get so fu**ed uppp and sh*t."
- RoseToyFan123
OMG!
"Insincere. Everyone was her very best bestie (including people she barely knew), and her response to everything was, 'Omg, SOOO gorgeous, I love you soooooooo much,' but with no sincerity attached to it whatsoever. She also exaggerated a lot and lied about her son’s level of severity regarding his diagnosis, which my son also has, and I can spot those lies from parents like that from a mile away. 20 plus years, and you pick up on the inconsistencies from these parents very quickly."
- Ecstatic_Coast_6702
Senseless...
"They spoke about how much they hated someone and how they're the worst. And then when they're around them, they're the best of friends and talk sh*t about others. Make it make sense.'
- yeah_confucius_1609
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The Main Issue
"One is the people you meet who seem like they're having some difficult breaks in life, and once you get to know them, you realize they are the cause of 95% of their own problems. They may be really good people, too, but I will distance myself once that becomes obvious. Life is hard enough without creating all your own problems, and I got my own to deal with."
- WillBrink
INSECURE
"Sometimes I'm attracted to men who seem very confident and assertive. After a while, though, I often realize that this confidence isn't genuine, but rather a strong need for recognition. Often, these men are actually quite insecure at their core, which wouldn't be so bad in itself – but trying to mask it with boasting usually makes me uncomfortable after some time."
- laralacex
A Sad Poistion
"When I found out she was not the person she had portrayed herself to be. She appeared to be super kind and in a sad position because her daughter had died, and she was suddenly raising her two young granddaughters. So I was very happy to step up and help them out in any way I could. But I discovered she was an accomplished grifter, and she didn’t care about her granddaughters; she was using her situation to get everything she could from everyone willing to help."
- No_Response8442
The Flake
"Kept flaking on hanging out with me because she'd smoke/get high and just completely not acknowledge that we were supposed to do things like game together."
- CountlessStories
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Those are all valid ghosting reasons.
The truth is, is that most of the people on this list will probably never even notice the absence of the relationship.
It was always about them.
They'll never acknowledge blame, they'll never apologize.
They will just move on to other people.
That is what a succubus does.
They take all they can.
When the well dries up, they slither along to another.
Everyone is better off for walking away.
