5-Year-Old & His Father Held In Federal Custody In Texas
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on 360, a five-year-old boy in custody along with his dad, what it says about the |
| 0:06.8 | tactics ICE and federal agents are using to grab as many people as they can. |
| 0:11.6 | Also tonight, we've seen all kinds of chemical sprays being used on protesters and passers |
| 0:15.7 | by, green ones and yellow ones. Take a look at this guy who got sprayed point blank in the face while he was pinned to the ground. What are these chemicals? We look into that tonight and get ready for scenes like these across half the country. The latest one of people in two dozen states are facing from a massive winter storm that's gathering force as we speak. Good evening. We begin tonight with this little boy now in federal custody along with his dad, |
| 0:41.3 | a preschooler who's now separated from his mom. His name is Liam Conejo Ramos. He's five years old. |
| 0:47.3 | By now, millions have probably seen this image of him dressed for Minnesota winter in a blue bunny hat. |
| 0:53.3 | Or this one of him at the door of his home |
| 0:56.1 | in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights, a mass federal agent standing behind him. Tonight, we |
| 1:01.8 | have a fuller picture, though by no means a complete one, and there are conflicting accounts of what |
| 1:06.6 | was happening in this moment. We do know that his dad picked him up and drove him back from a nearby preschool Tuesday |
| 1:12.6 | afternoon. |
| 1:13.6 | An attorney for the family, along with two local school officials, provided some new details |
| 1:18.0 | this evening about what happened after the agent showed up. |
| 1:21.6 | The school board chair, Mary Granland, says she saw what transpired at the door. So I was on my way to get my own children from school and I heard the commotion and saw all the people. |
| 1:33.3 | And as I got out of my car and came around the corner, I heard, what are you doing? Don't take the child. |
| 1:40.3 | His mom, like, there are people here that can take him there was an another |
| 1:45.1 | adult who lived in the home that was there saying I will take the child I will |
| 1:49.0 | take the child somebody else was yelling they saw that I was there and said |
| 1:54.2 | school is here they can take the child you don't have to take them and there |
| 1:59.4 | were there was ample opportunity to be able to safely hand that child off to |
| 2:05.7 | adults. And mom, mom was there. She saw the window and dad was yelling, please do not open the door. |
| 2:14.3 | Late today, the Department of Homeland Security posted its own account online, quoting from it now, |
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