Five-Year-Old Released After Detention Sparks Outrage
Liam Conejo Ramos, a five-year-old boy detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minnesota, was released after a federal judge ordered his release, according to Time. The boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, boarded a plane in Texas on Sunday morning and were escorted back to Minnesota by Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas. "Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack," Castro wrote on social media, Time reported.
The boy's detention gained national attention after a photograph surfaced on January 20 showing him wearing a blue bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack while being detained by an ICE agent in the driveway of his home, according to Time. The detention sparked widespread anger over the Trump Administration's mass deportation program, Time reported.
In other news, Israel reopened the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt for the movement of people, multiple news sources confirmed. The crossing had been largely closed since May 2024 when Israeli forces took control of the Gazan side. While the reopening, overseen by EU supervisors and Palestinian staff with remote Israeli security checks, is a relief to Palestinians, only a limited number of people, primarily sick and wounded individuals with their relatives, will be allowed to pass through, and no goods are currently permitted, according to BBC World.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Joann Moschella was saved by a lavender bunny after being hit by a car, NPR News reported. Moschella, who has been biking the steep streets of San Francisco since the late 1980s, was biking the mile-long commute from her workplace to a station of the local subway system when she was hit by a car a block away from her destination, according to NPR News. "Everyone who rides a bike in a big city knows that the real danger is other cars," Moschella said, according to NPR News.
In other news, Dylan Scott of Vox reported that another window to stem America's latest health care cost crisis is about to close. Congress set a self-imposed deadline of January 30 to reach a compromise to extend financial assistance, according to Vox.
Finally, in Providence, there's an old photograph of a couple hanging on the living room wall, according to Time. In the picture, they're sitting next to each other in the backyard on a late summer's afternoon. They are smiling and holding hands. To all the world, they look like they have arrivedlike they have everything theyve ever wanted. But it's 1957, and in America, Black people still have to worry about the possibility of getting lynched. Jim Crow in the south and racism everywhere else was rampant, according to Time.
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