Is the 5-year-old Minnesota boy detained by ICE being held in an El Paso facility?
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NO. Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, are not being held at an ICE detention center in El Paso, the family's lawyer said during a news conference Jan. 22, 2026. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Online Detainee locator confirms Conejo Arias is at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. It does not list minors.
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