“Active Asylum Case” — and a Lawyer Who Says He Still Doesn’t Know Where They Are
Stenvik said the family has an active asylum case and no deportation orders.
She said she personally viewed the family’s legal paperwork.
School leaders didn’t just hear about it secondhand.
Stenvik said staff from Liam’s school visited the home after the detention to support the family.
And it wasn’t just Liam impacted.
Stenvik described a middle school student in the same district returning home to discover his father and brother had been taken.
A family doesn’t absorb something like that quietly.
A school doesn’t either.
Marc Prokosch, a lawyer representing the Ramos family, said he still wasn’t sure of the exact current whereabouts of Liam and his father.
Based on experiences with other clients, he believed they were in Texas in a family holding cell.
He described the situation as cruelty.
He said the family has been doing what they’ve been asked to do during the asylum process.
He also said he was exploring a possible habeas corpus petition — but that doing so would likely require filing in Texas.
Then he said something that should make anyone pause:
Even if something is legal, it doesn’t automatically make it moral.
He suggested the detainment of a 5-year-old might not be illegal — and that reality is what makes his job harder.
Because the core question remains unchanged:
If you can do this… why would you?
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