Irina Vaynerman, one of the family’s lawyers, told The Guardian late Friday that immigration authorities later flew both back to Minnesota. The two-year-old was released into the custody of her mother, while the father remains detained in the state. Agents refused to allow the father to bring the girl to her mother or to other family members “waiting terrified inside the home”. The father and daughter were then placed in an immigration agent’s vehicle, which, according to the filing, did not have a car seat. At around 8.10pm, a Minnesota-based federal judge issued an order prohibiting the government from transferring them outside the state.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 24, 2026 15:26 UTC