#new The Illegal migrant who ditched his 5-year-old boy to run from ICE, has been ordered to be deported by a judge, who ruled that his family’s asylum claim was fraudulent
The 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy named Liam Conejo Ramos became the poster boy for anti-Trump, anti-ICE partisans who claimed ICE detained the boy and sent him to a detention center.
However, it was ICE agents who kept him safe and took him to McDonalds after his father, Alexander Conejo Arias, took off running when ICE showed up outside of their home to detain him.
Mainstream media outlets and democrat politicians immediately claimed the ‘arrest of a 5-year-old’ was proof of the Trump administration’s cruelty.
The internet was flooded with the picture of the boy in a bright blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack claiming that the family were desperate asylum seekers ripped apart by ICE.
However, according to court records, an immigration judge reviewed their claims, found that they did not meet the asylum guidelines and ordered them deported to Ecuador.
DHS statements, family interviews, and lawyer accounts, show the Conejo Ramos family arrived from Ecuador in late 2024.
The family says they used the Biden-era CBP One phone app to schedule a legal port-of-entry appointment and seek asylum.
DHS officials, however, said there’s no record of that entry and say the father came into the country illegally in December 2024.
In previous interviews, the wife, Erika Ramos, said she wanted the chance for her family “to live and work in the U.S.” without fear of deportation.
Conservatives say this and similar statements were proof that the family openly admitted they are economic migrants seeking better jobs and opportunities, not fleeing targeted persecution.
Adrian also told reporters he wanted asylum “to be here for my family, for my children” and because he was “scared of returning,” but didn’t provide detailed evidence of qualifying persecution in the public record.
DHS says they offered him voluntary return (which he declined),
By law, economic reasons – coming to the US for a better life or opportunity to work- do not qualify as asylum.
