NPR News: 02-01-2026 5PM EST
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, |
| 0:07.4 | working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:15.8 | Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Lysai Kautau. |
| 0:24.1 | A preschooler and his father who were arrested during President Donald Trump's latest immigration crackdown are back home in Minneapolis after a federal |
| 0:29.5 | judge ordered their release. As Matt Seppick of Minnesota Public Radio reports, officials at the |
| 0:34.5 | boys' schools say federal agents tried to use him as bait to lure other adults outside. |
| 0:40.5 | Liam Conejo Ramos was photographed wearing a blue hat with bunny ears and a Spider-Man backpack |
| 0:45.2 | when masked ICE agents pulled him from his dad's car on January 20th after school. |
| 0:50.6 | Local school officials say agents led the five-year-old to his front door and directed him to knock to see if anyone else was home. |
| 0:57.0 | Ice flew the boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, to a Texas detention center. |
| 1:02.0 | In ordering their release Saturday, Judge Fred Beery called the move a, quote, perfidious lust for unbridled power that's, quote, bereft of human decency. |
| 1:10.0 | Attorneys say the family from Ecuador is focusing on finding peace. |
| 1:14.3 | They entered the U.S. legally in 2024 to seek asylum, their lawyers said. |
| 1:19.1 | For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis. |
| 1:21.5 | House Speaker Mike Johnson says he expects lawmakers this week to vote on a nearly $1.3 trillion funding bill to fully reopen the federal government. |
| 1:31.8 | But there is one area of disagreement with Democrats funding for the Department of Homeland Security. |
| 1:37.2 | Speaking to NBC's meet the press, Johnson says Republicans will fund all federal agencies and then negotiate with Democrats. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, let's say I'm confident that we'll do it at least by Tuesday. |
| 1:46.7 | We have a logistical challenge of getting everyone in town. |
| 1:49.8 | And because of the conversation I had with Hakeem Jeffries, |
| 1:52.6 | I know that we've got to pass a rule and probably do this mostly on our own. |
| 1:56.8 | I think that's very unfortunate. |
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