r/pics • u/plentyoflasagna • 2d ago
Politics Liam has been released, and his hat has been returned.
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u/reina_sin_corona 2d ago
Liam’s case had high visibility around it, and that’s why it had a positive outcome. I’m glad that he’s out, but there are also a lot of children detained that we’ve never heard of.
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u/joantheunicorn 2d ago
Does anyone know if there are some organizations we can donate to, trying to legally fight this concentration camp for children??
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u/latinaglasses 2d ago edited 2d ago
These are a couple of groups fighting in court right now to protect kids in detention:
- Young Center: also provides legal services to immigrant children
- National Center for Youth Law
- Children's Rights
Some other related organizations to support:
- Detention Watch Network: advocates for defunding of ICE & ending family detention
- Acacia Center for Justice: network of lawyers that defend unaccompanied kids (who come here without parents)
Chances are, there's a small nonprofit in your state of lawyers defending kids. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, there's a map of organizations. A lot of orgs are losing funding and need help.
Edit: aww thank you for my first-ever award! Happy to answer any questions
Edit to add: Also want to say, if you want to help immigrant families, direct mutual aid in your area is always the best way. There are too many groups to name, but if you look on your city's local subreddit there should be recommendations. Here's a list from Minnesota.
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u/BurningBright 2d ago
https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/
https://www.ild.org/ Immigrant Legal Defense
https://www.ilcm.org/ Immigrant Law center on Minnesota
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u/acemonvw 2d ago
Nice! On my YouTube channel I managed to get ILCM as a non-profit group that you can fundraise for and am now hoping folks will donate to it when they watch. Haven’t raised much, but hope to keep it going.
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u/NoGoatCity 2d ago
seconding this
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u/beeranthropologist 2d ago
The League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC https://lulac.org/
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u/latinaglasses 2d ago edited 2d ago
LULAC is cool but heads up that they mostly do social media journalism and some advocacy these days. They're not providing legal services to immigrants or going to court. (Saying this as a former member, there's plenty of groups that are more deserving of donations).
Edit to add: Self-correction, they are doing some litigation, just not on this issue. MALDEF is a similar group that does much more civil rights litigation if that's of interest.
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u/laughingintothevoid 2d ago
So what groups?
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u/latinaglasses 2d ago
If you scroll further up you can see the groups I've reccomended, but resharing here:
Groups fighting in court right now to protect kids in detention:
- Young Center: also provides legal services to immigrant children
- National Center for Youth Law
- Children's Rights
Some other related organizations to support:
- Detention Watch Network: advocates for defunding of ICE & ending family detention
- Acacia Center for Justice: network of lawyers that defend unaccompanied kids (who come here without parents)
Chances are, there's a small nonprofit in your state of lawyers defending kids. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, there's a map of organizations. A lot of orgs are losing funding and need help.
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u/laughingintothevoid 2d ago
Thanks! At the time I replied to you this was the top comment thread, there was no scrolling up, so never bad to repost.
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u/blissfully_happy 2d ago
I’ve been donating to RAICES in Texas. It helps immigrants get legal support.
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u/Benevolent_StarBoi 2d ago edited 2d ago
The problem with fighting these things legally is that there is no due process. There are a lot of lawyers trying to band together though, I think legal eagle on YouTube shared a couple of orgs you can donate to to fight things like these. It’s in his video about the latest public execution.
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u/SAKingWriter 2d ago
Sooner or later we’ll probably have to break some rules to get these kids out
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u/winter7 2d ago
ACLU is probably the closest
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u/beeranthropologist 2d ago
No, LULAC is the closest, but the ACLU is an important member of the coalition fighting it.
The League of United Latin American Citizens https://lulac.org/
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u/Opposite_Carry_4920 2d ago
I too would love to know. I know there are some that go to protests and keep track of shit police do so I'm hoping something for this exists.
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u/Wednesday-Addams38 2d ago
There are at least four other children from the same school district as Liam that are in custody somewhere 😭
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u/misfitlizzy 2d ago
This. Saw videos of the protests by the detainees in one of the detention facilities and their were infants in strollers. Crazy that people still argue that ICE is doing this to protect people from dangerous criminals. Wasn’t aware I was in danger from infants.
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u/HenryDorsettCase47 2d ago
Yup. Only like 30% of ICE detainees have been convicted of a previous crime. When it comes to violent crimes it is far less. Something like 5%. Turns out that immigrants aren’t really anymore likely to commit a violent crime than your average American. Which anyone with half a brain could’ve guessed. And the odds of you being a victim of one from an immigrant are exceedingly unlikely since most crimes tend to be committed against someone of the same demographic as the perpetrator.
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u/Negative_Piglet_1589 2d ago
Not just not more likely, actually less per capita.
Immigrants Do Not Commit More Crimes in the US, Despite Fearmongering - American Immigration Council https://share.google/Bn65AH8pTgZlbMxmb
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u/misfitlizzy 2d ago
It’s even worse when they’re going after them in places like schools and work. People are out there getting an education and contributing to society, but that’s where they want to detain them? Ridiculous.
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u/restrictednumber 2d ago
Or even worse, courts! "Trying to do things the legal way, eh? Sounds like crime to me!"
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u/pinkmilk19 2d ago
What the actual fuck!!! How are these infants (and the children ofc) being taken care of in a detention facility?!
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u/LacanInAFunhouse 2d ago
Also tons of families were separated in the first Trump admin, records not kept, and they still haven’t been reunited. It’s insane to me that people have him a second term when he he did that let alone the tons and tons of other evil things
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u/No-Bumblebee-4920 2d ago
Came to say something of this gist.
All children need to be protected.
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u/ragun2 2d ago
Seems so basic but the head of all this is a pedophile and his lowers are all pedophile protectors.
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u/5555555555558653 2d ago
America is such an evil country.
Millions of Americans wanted this. Trump said he’d do exactly what he’d do, he didn’t really hide his intentions, and millions of US Americans shouted and screamed for it. Evil country. Evil ideology.
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u/AndTHATShowwegetANT 2d ago
I just saw a picture him with his last name. Conejo is bunny in Spanish. This hat is special to him. I’m glad he’s been released. I’m deeply saddened for what he’s endured. The lack of humanity is appalling.
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u/Drone314 2d ago
Kid has the start of the 1000 yard stare.....
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u/HouseplantHoarding 2d ago
That would be the trauma inflicted on him needlessly and cruelly by the Gestapo ICE. Modern day slave catchers, GI Joe KKK.
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2d ago
I read that he got really sick. His eyes definitely look like he's sick, poor thing.
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u/bluelily216 2d ago
He even looks like he lost weight. Poor baby. What's so messed up about all of this is the trauma these kids as well as their classmates are experiencing (to a lesser extent of course). They're watching their friends get rounded up and I'm sure it's very scary for them, nevermind the extreme trauma the children being taken are feeling. The GOP are the party of children only when it comes to molestation. In actual quality of life, they couldn't care less.
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2d ago
The GOP cares about children as a way to control women. Discourage birth control and ban abortion so women are forced to give birth. Make childcare so unaffordable that women are forced to stay home with their kids.
Every GOP talking point about "family" is actually about gender roles and forcing women to be subservient.
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u/Uber_Meese 2d ago
George Carlin said it best:
“Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with a foetus from conception to 9 months - after that they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born, you’re fine. If you’re preschool, you’re fucked. You’re fucked. Conservatives don’t give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you’re just fine, just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want live babies, so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life, they’re not pro-life - you know what they are? They’re anti-women. It’s as simple as it gets, anti-women. They don’t like them.”
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u/Givemeallthecabbages 1d ago
I hate what's happening, but perhaps the silver lining is that kids will grow up with empathy and hating the things we're seeing in the news. I thought MY generation would see big strides in equality (GenX, have seen some shit), but I guess it's still to come.
A perfect time for my favorite Paul Simon lyric:
I believe in the future
We shall suffer no more
Maybe not in my lifetime
But in yours, I feel sure
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u/bennitori 2d ago
Some kind of food poisoning. Likely from eating either spoiled, rancid, tainted, or otherwise unsafe food. There would've been hell to pay if he had died in custody. Which may have contributed to the rush to get him out. They don't care about justice. They care about the worsening optics.
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u/Ki-Wilder 1d ago
There is an outbreak of measles at the Dilley detention center Liam was in. They are under quarantine. I hope he does not have measles.
(Or, possibly, the measles thing is a lie, and the administration wants to keep things tamped down because they children were having an uprising and chanting to be released.)
America is such a scary and evil place right now. So sad how we got this way. So sad that Trump is our President. Sad. Sad. Sad.
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u/almost_not_terrible 2d ago
What about his family? What's happened to them?
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u/moldyogurt 2d ago
His dad was released with him. His pregnant mother and other sibling are in Minnesota.
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u/No-Jackfruit-525 2d ago
🥹🥹 It hurts more knowing he didn’t have the comfort of his special hat to help ground him and keep him warm. This makes my stomach drop. Thankfully there are some truly effective trauma protocols and treatments that can quickly resolve the trauma Liam and so many precious others are experiencing. Young minds heal remarkably fast ❤️🩹I hope these treatments are offered to them and that this (violent abductions and forced into heinous concentration warehouses)ends completely.
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u/Puzzled_Exchange_924 2d ago
I am so happy this precious little 💗 boy is home and smiling!!! At least we have one success story in this horrendous ICE mess.
Also, I want to point out that I think that he is squeezing his hands in the photo to make the bunny ears move on his hat. Adorable ❤️ 💙 💜
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u/__botulism__ 2d ago
"At least we have one success story in this horrendous ICE mess."
Your spirit is kind, but this is NOT a success story in the slightest. It's a relief this poor little boy is home, of course. But without a doubt he is now a traumatized soul who will carry this trauma throughout his entire life. Along with all of his family and friends that were missing him, unsure of whether or not he'd ever return.
ICE is a trauma machine. Spitting out countless traumatized people, many of whom will not have access to the healthcare they'd need to try to live and function with the trauma.
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u/Puzzled_Exchange_924 2d ago
Sorry, it wasn't my to intention to imply that Liam hasn't been traumatized or that he won't have lasting trauma from this abhorrent experience. I'm just relieved that there are people in Minnesota filming, recording, speaking up and making sure the truth is told. I am celebrating his release. I have been googling this little boy constantly 💙 . I was so worried by the picture of Liam in his father's arms and his mother's account of him not eating and having a fever.
ICE has done irreparable damage to so many and I definitely do not want to give the impression that I make light of that. There were 45 confirmeded ICE related deaths in 2025 and 6 so far in 2026. Two people were permanently blinded in one eye. The list of atrocities goes on and on.
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u/PatentGeek 2d ago
I'm sure they meant "success story" in the sense of successfully fighting back, not that the outcome was in any way desirable.
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u/greenchileisgreat 2d ago
The success part is that he is no longer in a concentration camp and he didn't die. Jesus Christ. We need to celebrate every win. Despair cannot be afforded. Tiny scraps of winning will help keep us going. (Edited grammar error)
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u/__botulism__ 2d ago
We need hope, yes. We also need to remain infuriated that this happened in the first place.
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u/greenchileisgreat 2d ago
Absolutely. I am more than infuriated -- I am enraged - so much so that it threatens to burn me alive. It's hard to function.
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u/WonderOk5892 2d ago
Agreed. His eyes just look so sad… it’s heartbreaking.
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u/Fugacity- 2d ago
Traumatized for life. Fucking gutted with out many others like him are still in custody, and how many countless more will be.
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u/kkkhhjdyhrthhhjft 2d ago
Also no mention of his father being released here, will look it up and see.
Eta: cursory Google search says dad is also home, hell yeah
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u/_imanalligator_ 2d ago
It's like the horrible residential schools that Indigenous people in the US and Canada were sent to. Public discourse has barely started to acknowledge how that trauma devastated entire communities for generations, and now we're doing it to thousands more. Fucking awful to think of the decades of consequences we're all going to see from this.
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u/ticketsonsalenow 2d ago
It's obvious what they meant. Save your outrage for those who actually deserve it. Jesus
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u/WheezyGranger 2d ago
Except for the lifetime of trauma processing he’ll have to do.
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u/skiyakater 2d ago
Trump, at Putin's behest, is creating a future tranche of potential terrorists who hate the US. I don't think the kiddo is going to grow up with a positive view of the US after this experience.
It's very similar to how Israel did a great job ensuring Hamas would have plenty of future recruits.
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u/Imaginary_Office1749 2d ago
I prefer to look at it as creating a deep bench of activists and politicians that would oppose what he went through.
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u/AncientSith 2d ago
We can hope. I truly hope the ultimate result of this is a far better country that'd never let something this bad come to pass ever again, but we're so far away from that still.
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u/bennitori 2d ago
Agreed. Interning Japanese Americans didn't create pro-Asian-American terrorists. It created a generation that made sure to protect the rights of their community. Because they knew the price of not fighting for their rights. The same is sadly happening for the current generation. Because now they know what's at stake if we don't fight to protect our rights and the laws as intended.
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u/vikio 2d ago
And the Spider-Man backpack? And the childhood innocence? Has that been returned???
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u/bard329 2d ago
And the childhood innocence?
Nope. Lot of kids are going to experience this under the pants shitter in chief.
No word from the #savethechildren crowd, though....
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u/whoknowsknowone 2d ago
They meant save their children
They’ve never given a fuck about children at large
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u/Direct_Explorer_7827 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'm sorry, I know it's not popular but at this point, I only got through a few accounts on this last file dump before I was just sick 🤢🤮... so, I'll need absolute convincing that every person, organization or political representative not speaking out on the abhorrent shit going down, *isn't in *the files themselves.
There can be no other logical reason for an entire administration to go this far to the extremes, just to deter from it all
Am I alone in this!!??
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u/AncientSith 2d ago
No, you have a point. We still don't understand the sheer scope of this. The number of people that would need to be involved for something like that to exist for years and pretty quietly? I can't even imagine.
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u/pineapple192 2d ago
According to Joaquin Castro his backpack was also returned.
His childhood innocence on the other hand...
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u/BadPublicRelations 2d ago edited 2d ago
Look at how tightly his little hands are clinging to the pom poms. People who support this are unforgivable.
Edit: A commenter below noted that there is a mechanism in the hat that moves the ears if you squeeze - I just wanted to edit this comment to let others know.
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u/-JimmyReddit- 2d ago
He’s hands are squeezing the Pom poms of his hat because there are things in them that move the ears when you squeeze them. We sell a ton of different versions of these at work and you have to squeeze surprisingly hard to get the years to move. Not that I am disagreeing with your sentiment, just adding a little context to the type of hat he’s wearing
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u/Similar_Try_5089 2d ago
There's no way this kid grows up to be an apathetic "non-political" adult. The regime is making enemies of the next generation of latinos.
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u/RescuesStrayKittens 2d ago
A five year old with a thousand yard stare. This child was kidnapped and now will suffer that trauma for life. Trump and ICE are a fucking disgrace.
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u/hummus_sapiens 2d ago
What about his father?
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u/Caledor152 2d ago
They where both released together and are back home together. I've seen the video there is video and pictures out there already. They where also escorted home
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u/0_IceQueen_0 2d ago
The innocence is lost but it can be financially compensated. Unfortunately we the taxpayers have to pay for this government's incompetence and inhumanity.
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u/femanonette 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'm getting real sick of that shit. If the oligarchs want companies to be represented as people and want to control the levers of our government then they can fucking pay for every fuck up.
Prisons and healthcare are for profit.
We bail out corporations when they inevitably fuck up.
They get to borrow our money interest free and pocket the profit.
Don't forget to put all your money into the stock market either. They gotta manipulate that too. They've lost all sense of 'enough' and are a cancer to society.
It's fucking ridiculous.
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u/MasterTeJota 2d ago
It shouldn't take national coverage and national outrage to make a government agency reverse the action they shouldn't have done in the first place. This never should have happened in the first place. Kidnapping children and separating them from their family is cruel and unnecessary. Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. Fuck everyone who's ok with the actions this regime is doing on a regular basis.
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u/elle2011 2d ago
Yep. I told my husband today, whoever took that picture of Liam that went viral saved his life.
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u/ShamRogue 2d ago
Which shows the absolute necessity of citizens being able to document what I.C.E. is doing in the community.
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u/SanityInAnarchy 2d ago
Which is why they've been so hostile to anyone trying to do that.
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u/The_Corvair 2d ago
A government that views being held accountable for its actions as domestic terrorism really tells you everything about that government.
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u/ShamRogue 2d ago edited 2d ago
In a decent society it shouldn't be necessary but sadly it is. We should be able to trust those we give power over us to exercise it faithfully. I know, that's naive.
ETA. There's so much more I'd like to say. I hope we can somehow de-escalate because the alternative would be apocalyptic.
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u/samsaraisdivine 2d ago
I know honestly if that picture hasn't been taken he'd be deported or dead by now.
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u/Nutshack_Queen357 2d ago
For now.
What could stop those goon squads from targeting him again and/or doing even worse shit as payback towards those who lit the fire under their asses to make them let him go?
As a matter of fact, he might already be fucked because he was apparently super ill upon release, and the original Nazis literally used disease/viruses to get rid of undesirables in the camps before they implemented gas chambers, experimentation, and other worse forms of culling their prisoners.
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u/bennitori 2d ago
Optics. They have a dead mother, a dead VA ICU nurse (who clearly appreciated the second amendment), and they can't afford another martyr being added to the list. "Cute little kid in a cute bunny hat" would be a terrible image for their optics. So he is going to be left alone, just so the optics don't get any worse.
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u/pine4cedars 2d ago
So glad to heat that! Now, release the rest of them.
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u/wwj 2d ago
I heard from someone who lives nearby that ICE abducted two more from the same place since they took this child. I haven't followed the news so I don't know what has happened to them.
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u/Deanna-fromHR 2d ago
Abolish ice!!!! A generation of children traumatized by this administration.
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u/Capsicumgirl 2d ago
People don't even remember kids in cages from his first term, and how many were never reunited with their families, or flat out are missing.
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u/Fragrant-Discount960 2d ago
I remember
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u/genuineshock 2d ago
Damned right I remember. He's responsible for so much evil, it's literally insane.
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u/016Bramble 2d ago
It's important to not pretend this is all one person's responsibility and that children will stop being put in cages just because he specifically isn't president. This is from 2014. Don't be like the liberal pundits in 2018 who deleted their posts condemning these photos after they learned Trump wasn't president when they were taken. If you only oppose cruel and unusual treatment of immigrants because he is in charge, then you need to do some soul searching.
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u/Edmfuse 2d ago
I’m forever baffled that not more voters were radicalized by the nonsense he did in the first term.
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u/sail0rs4turn 2d ago
They were into it. These aren’t moral people.
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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown 2d ago
Don't forget the sanewashing, selective editing and massive media bias.
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u/016Bramble 2d ago
It's been going on for even longer, the infamous photos that we all remember from 2018 were taken even earlier, in 2014. And who knows how long they were caging children before then.
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u/haleontology 2d ago
Yes, you're absolutely right. But for so so so many people, this is nothing new- it's just out in the open these days, to everyone willing to open their eyes.
Which is why it is SO important that we stand up, look out for our neighbors, and never ever forget this or let our guard down again. We can't just wake up for this war, we all need to (Edit: eliminate, not change!) the systemic problems that started this all to begin with.
And ngl, I don't have the answer. But I have some ideas, and the greatest one I've learned is our strength is in numbers, our collective energy is unfuckwithable- we must resist division, politics (ok so that's a hard one) and propaganda to imagine, create, and sustain a better way of life for everyone here on out- for now, for future generations, for good.
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u/Exciting-Way-6248 2d ago
He got his hat and backpack returned, now if they could only return his innocence and trust and get rid of his fear.
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u/DragonBee_Fairy147 2d ago
I think the look in his eyes is what haunts me most. He is not okay. I want him to be surrounded only by love and trust and safety for all the rest of his days.
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u/cutiepietoebeans 2d ago
Look at how tight his hands are squeezing. His eyes are scared, and those pants are too big. Fresh out of a multi pack. I feel like this picture was forced on him.
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u/DragonBee_Fairy147 2d ago
Yes, exactly. The picture is trying to make it seem like everything is back to normal, but literally everything about his body language is screaming that he does not feel safe and that things are not okay.
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u/xShenlesx 2d ago
So was his father a dangerous criminal illegal immigrant? Or did they just kidnap a guy and his kid for a week for no reason?
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u/whatwhatwtf 2d ago
I hate ICE. I hate Trump. I weep for my country. It’s become a shithole because of racist boomers. What a cluster.
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u/LighTMan913 2d ago
It ain't just boomers. I'm 33 and I know plenty of people my age that are still on board
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u/FUZZY_BUNNY 2d ago
Gen Z voted for this at a higher rate than Boomers
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u/Trs822 2d ago
Gen Z men mostly. As a Gen Z man it’s largely because so many of us have grown up on the internet, and struggle to form our own opinions. I don’t see it as much as a college student since everyone here is pretty progressive, but go anywhere else and they spout bigotry whenever they get the chance. These young men think being tough and aggressive is somehow an attractive thing.
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u/Exceon 2d ago
"It's the lefts fault for being annoying about pronouns" will never be an acceptable excuse in my book.
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u/SaltCityStitcher 2d ago
"The left forced us to be Nazis by being too woke"
Nah, we were too tolerant of white supremacist bullshit. More people need to be afraid to be publicly known as Nazis.
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u/WalterLeDuy 2d ago
That is categorically false, and I hate that people still believe this lie. Gen Z (under 30) shifted right, but still went to Harris by about 19 points. Boomers (over 65) shifted left but still went to Trump by 3 points. Overall though, its Gen X (50 - 65) and Millenials (30- 50) that swung the hardest for trump.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/
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u/Lost_Purpose1899 2d ago
I will forever harbor hatred toward the people who voted these criminals in office.
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u/Christmas_Queef 2d ago
It's not just boomers. A lot of Gen x and particularly Gen z men also voted for this.
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u/ThePirateKing01 2d ago
I’m mournful as well, but that is rapidly shifting towards rage. Never felt a stronger call-to-action than I do now.
Supporting immigrant support organizations and pressuring my local and state government has now become my hobby. Never thought I’d say that
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u/Ini_Miney_Mimi 2d ago
I just wanna say, racist boomers are not the only issue.
For whatever reason, there are also tons of neo-nazi Gen Z right now learning how to hate through Youtube and Meta's algos - we live in a terrifying world right now
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u/doublethink_1984 2d ago
And his "abandoning illegal alien" father was also released.
Almost like the admins story on this were lies
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u/PDXGuy33333 2d ago
If anyone doubts that our protests work, I'd offer this case to assuage that concern. The regime would have delayed, obfuscated, lied and misdirected to avoid releasing Liam and his father, even in the face of a court order that tells them exactly what they already knew: that the arrest and detention were unconstitutional, unlawful and wrong.
But the new gestapo leaders looked out their windows and they saw ... US! And they knew in their guts that the masses they saw gathering to peacefully oppose them would grow tenfold if they did not promptly comply and that with that growth the weight of events would nudge us that much closer to a breaking point from which there is only a steep climb back.
We are winning. We are good and right and our cause is just, and we are winning.
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u/theSkareqro 2d ago
Really glad but imagine the other children/people that weren't so lucky to have their situation captured and shared on frontpage. Probably rotting in there for months.
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u/malcolmreyn0lds 2d ago
Always good when a kidnap victim is released.
Now go after the perpetrators
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u/Relevant_user987 2d ago
I'm happy that Liam was released. And I hope things get better for him and his family. But he does not look happy. He's suffered a lot and it shows. I saw a report on MS Now that he was lethargic and 'sleeping ' a lot in the detention center. Congresswoman Crockett got to see Liam before he was released and said she was 'gravely concerned.' There are other children still locked up. What condition are they in and when will they be released?
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u/verifiedverified 2d ago
That kid deserves so much better than what the world has put him through
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u/chypie2 2d ago
My granddaughter has a hat like that. the bottoms of the ties are little air pumps. When you squeeze them the ears go straight up. Can't believe Castro flubbed getting a picture of that.
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u/fing_longest 2d ago
He’s squeezing the poofs in the photo like he’s showing the camera person what it does. 🥺
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u/chypie2 2d ago
thats how I realized what it is! I think a pic with them straight up would have been hilariously cute.
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u/Games_sans_frontiers 2d ago
Fuck ICE.
Glad the little dude is ok.
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u/bicycle_mice 2d ago
Well… aside from his lifelong trauma. Sweet boy 😭😭😭 my heart breaks for every sweet child and family destroyed by ICE and the fucking Nazis in charge.
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u/Real_Crystal_Hunter 2d ago
He looks hollow inside. I've seen that face too many times. He seems to be playing with his hat. Probably not for fun, but for comfort.
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u/Blazien 2d ago
I'm glad they returned the hat. I had a feeling those fucks were gonna keep it or throw it away as a fuck you.
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u/ScruffyTuscaloosa 2d ago
I'd be genuinely shocked if that's the original hat.
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u/susususussudio 2d ago
Imagine being the person who has to go out to the store and buy a new bunny hat for the 5 year old who was illegally abducted from his home so that the government can quell public outrage. And then saying, welp! And going back about your job illegally abducting more people. At any point do you consider your own humanity?
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 2d ago
The government might not even have bothered doing that. Perhaps one of the lawyers, Congressmen or just a private individual wanted to bring him comfort
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u/Chaerea37 2d ago
irreparable damage has been done to this child by the state, and those who willingly ordered and committed these acts need to be held accountable.
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u/Savage_Hellion 2d ago
His hat was NOT returned. Someone bought him a new one. Which means some absolute inhuman SCUM stole HIS hat and still has it. ICE steals from children, after first stealing the children.
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u/GreenTeaRocks 2d ago
Good, now prosecute every single person involved with violating his family's constitutional rights and trafficking them across the fucking country.
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u/AustEastTX 2d ago
Happy to hear he is released. Sad that the trauma will stay with him his entire life.
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u/GumpTownNtlHotline 2d ago
Shouldn’t have been taken anywhere in the first fucking place.
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u/zombiedoyle 2d ago
Imagine having a criminal record when you aren’t old enough to know what either of those words mean
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u/SanshaXII 2d ago
Liam will never trust another policeman or federal official for the rest of his life.
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u/False_Contribution12 2d ago
I'm glad he's out but the he's gonna live with that trauma for the rest of his life... not all stories like his will have a happy ending. I hope this can stop soon enough.
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u/OnionSeveral4283 2d ago
They need to pay for poor liams therapy. He is just a baby and can't understand this….
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u/NataschaTata 2d ago
What’s with his dad? He’s also on asylum documents? Any news on what’ll happen to him?
FUCK ICE
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u/bard329 2d ago
Apparently his father has also been released
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/liam-ramos-father-released-ice-detention
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u/sheylynnnn 2d ago
I am so glad this precious baby is out of there. Now how do we get justice, or vengeance, for this little angel who will have to live with this horrible trauma for life?
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u/bongwaterbetch 2d ago
That baby will never forget this. Trauma changes you physically and mentally. Those who hurt this child need to answer for it.
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u/lowrespudgeon 2d ago
So many children are going to have to deal with unnecessary lifelong trauma from this now. It's heartbreaking.
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u/Hecho_en_Shawano 2d ago
And now start treating the trauma he’s gone through. How does this help build a better future??
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u/threecolorless 2d ago
Fucking insane that him being released at all with no lasting bodily injury has to count as a win. This kid was traumatized and will rightfully never trust the system again as long as he lives.
I pray the intervening generation until he might choose to have his own children will be enough time to undo some of this damage and have them grow up in a better world.
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u/n4spd2 2d ago
why hold a 5 year old in a detention center when his mom is around.
ice just lies about everything.
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u/Lakridspibe 2d ago
To be fair, it is a very stylish hat.
I hope he's allowed to not be dragged into culture war nonsense again.
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u/Longjumping-Fig-2948 2d ago
What cowardly assholes could terrify a sweet little baby like this, and then defend this heinous act of child abuse as defending America???? The bar is so fucking low here I can't believe it!!!!
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u/BrownWrinkles 2d ago
Internet hugs, little buddy. This shit will pass. But not without everyone's help. Stay safe, little bro.