LOADING ERROR LOADINGA federal judge in San Antonio has ordered the release of Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, and his father from an ICE detention center in Texas after they were taken into custody in a Minneapolis suburb last week. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered Saturday morning that both the preschooler and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, be released by Tuesday, the San-Antonio Express News reported. Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was detained by ICE agents on Jan. 20, 2026 in a suburb of Minneapolis. DHS called what happened at Liam house a “targeted operation” to arrest Conejo Arias. Federal officials said he was in the country illegally.

South Carolina has already seeded cases across the country, including some in neighboring North Carolina, which has reported 15 cases. In Washington state, three members of a South Carolina family visited King and Snohomish counties while infectious, leading to three cases there. Like elsewhere in the United States, more families in South Carolina are seeking exemptions from routine childhood vaccinations for religious reasons. Still, the South Carolina outbreak highlighted the need for public health officials to build trust in some close-knit immigrant communities more resistant to vaccination. Varadi has also volunteered her own services as public health officials develop a more formal vaccine outreach plan.

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Nationwide protests take place Friday as part of a “National Shutdown” in response to immigration actions in Minnesota. The mostly peaceful protest took a turn as day turned to night in downtown Los Angeles and the crowd refused to disperse. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)Hundreds of activists and protesters march down Cesar Chavez Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)An LAPD officer fires a less-lethal launcher at protesters at Alameda and 1st streets in downtown Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)Protesters head south on Alameda Street as LAPD officers push them out of the area in downtown Los Angeles.

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