A 10-year-old girl from Minnesota has been released from ICE custody after a month of detention in Dilley, Texas: the Guardian writes, citing school officials.
She was one of hundreds of children held at the facility.
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, a fourth-grader, and her mother were released back into the wild Tuesday evening. Elizabeth attends a school in the Columbia Heights school district, a suburb of Minneapolis, which is also the hometown of Liam Conejo Ramos, a five-year-old released from Dilley over the weekend amid a wave of outrage over his detention.
Elizabeth was arrested along with her mother by federal agents on January 6, the first of five students from the Columbia Heights district to be detained by ICE during the Trump administration’s harsh immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The family, originally from Ecuador, has an active asylum claim, according to the school. The little girl and her mother were at a shelter in Texas on Wednesday morning, the family’s attorney said, and would then head to Minnesota to reunite with her father. Meanwhile, concerns about Elizabeth’s health are growing after federal officials confirmed that a measles outbreak is underway at Dilley, a facility that houses families.
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“President Trump’s common-sense immigration policies are producing the public safety results the American people have asked for, with more than 4,000 dangerous illegal immigrants with criminal records already arrested in Minnesota since Operation Metro began.” The White House wrote this in a note on the day in which the head of immigration, Tom Homan, announced the withdrawal of 700 Ice agents from Minneapolis. The note highlights that the decision to reduce the number of agents depends on “these successes and the new, unprecedented collaboration with state and local officials in Minnesota”
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