By now, you’ve likely heard the story of Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old Minnesota child who was sent with his illegal alien father to an immigration detention center after his dad was detained by ICE, only to be returned a week later after an outcry from hysterical liberals who won't give a second thought to a child killed on a highway by an illegal alien driver, but who will happily lose anything passing for common sense over a family having to answer for breaking a just law. Little Liam, standing in the Minnesota snow in his fuzzy blue hat and Spider-Man backpack, was immediately seized upon by leftists and the elitist media as the cherub-faced poster child for the Trump administration’s Gestapo-esque cruelty. After all, who but a Nazi could be so heartless as to arrest a kindergartener? Never mind that Liam Conejo Ramos was never “arrested.” Never mind that his father was an illegally present alien from Ecuador who had crossed the border unlawfully and who had no legal claim to be in the United States. Never mind that Adrian Conejo Arias had abandoned his son in a snowbank and fled from immigration officials when they showed up to his door to arrest him for immigration violations, or the fact that Liam’s own mother refused to take custody of her son despite repeated attempts by ICE to persuade her to do so. And never mind that Arias had requested that his son remain with him, even if it meant the pair would be detained together at a state-of-the-art detention facility in Texas - complete with playrooms and a rec center - while they awaited a chartered jet back to their home country. That single photo of a little chubby-cheeked boy in a fuzzy blue hat is all that mattered to opportunistic leftists - the same leftists who never batted any eye at the children being dumped over the border wall by human smugglers, the migrant toddlers left to die in the sweltering Texas desert, or the hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children who were “lost” by the Biden administration, many of them later found in abusive homes, or being exploited into forced labor. As the elitist media continues to wage their propaganda war, the truth gets forcibly suffocated beneath the photos of little boys in fuzzy blue hats, the deceptively edited videos of “children” being “disappeared,” and the carefully-worded headlines decrying ICE’s cruelty toward desperate migrant families. But beneath the dramatic sobbing and media hand-wringing, the truth remains the truth. And the American people deserve to know it. While the examples abound, here are a few of the most truly egregious examples of leftwing media lies, and what you need to know to keep from falling for them.   1. What the media told you: ICE ripped a crying child from her father’s arms as he was having a seizure A video from November that immediately sent leftist operatives into apoplexy appeared to show a man seizing while sitting in the driver’s seat of his vehicle, as agents attempt to grab a screaming child from his arms. One local reporter woefully described how “some in the crowd [we]re crying seeing toddler caught in the middle of an ICE apprehension.” What really happened: Juliana Ojeda Montoya was an illegal alien from Ecuador who was wanted by ICE after being arrested in August of 2025 for stabbing a coworker repeatedly with a pair of scissors and assaulting them with a garbage can. After being apprehended by ICE during a traffic stop, Montoya and her husband dragged their toddler daughter to the front seat, locked arms, and refused to let go of the child or step out of the vehicle. Montoya’s husband then began having a “seizure” - an episode that magically disappeared after ICE managed to secure his child and pull him out of the car. He showed no further symptoms, refused medical treatment at the scene, and was released with the child while Montoya was detained. 2. What the media told you: ICE arrested a US citizen nurse for no reason. Another viral video began making the rounds on social media showing a woman in scrubs screaming that she is a U.S. citizen while being detained by ICE agents on the side of the road. What actually happened: According to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE agents were searching for the woman’s boyfriend, who is an illegal alien, and pulled this woman over because she was driving a vehicle registered in his name. She refused to provide her identification for officers, leading them to follow standard procedure and remove her from the vehicle and place her in a patrol car while they verified her identity. After they confirmed who she was, they immediately released her. All of which could have been avoided had she simply complied with a simple, basic order and shown them her driver’s license.   3. What the media told you: “A teacher at a Chicago day care center was violently dragged out and then arrested by federal immigration officers.” A viral video began circulating in early January showing ICE agents detaining a woman outside a daycare center in Chicago. What really happened: ICE agents instigated a traffic stop to detain an illegal alien woman named Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, who crossed into the United States illegally in 2023. She was wanted for facilitating human smuggling after reportedly paying human traffickers to illegally smuggle her teenage sons into the U.S. When ICE agents attempted to apprehend her, she sped into a parking lot and fled on foot into the daycare center, where she was employed. Agents caught up to her in the vestibule and had to forcibly drag her out of the facility after she resisted arrest. 4. What the media told you: ICE teargassed an infant whose parents were stuck driving through a protest. Minnesota couple Shawn and Destiny Jackson told local news outlets that they and their six children were driving home from their son’s basketball game when their vehicle got stuck on a street clogged up with anti-ICE protesters. The couple said ICE officers began throwing flash bangs, which they say exploded beneath their car and set off the airbags, and claimed agents threw tear gas near the vehicle, which came in through the air vents and began choking their six-month-old son. The couple told reporters their son "nearly died," and was taken to a nearby hospital in respiratory distress. What really happened: Contrary to the couple’s sob story, live-streamed video from the protest shows both Shawn and Destiny Jackson in the street with the mob, talking and laughing with protesters roughly 45 minutes before operators received the 911 call reporting an infant who had inhaled tear gas. The video does not show any children with the couple, leading many to question whether they had left their children - including their infant son - in the vehicle while they attended the protest, and leaving ICE officers with no way of knowing that there were any children nearby when they began implementing crowd dispersal measures as the mob became increasingly violent. Even still, the Jacksons managed to garner national sympathy and raise nearly $200,000 through a self-established GoFundMe campaign toward the cost of a new vehicle. 5. What the media told you: ICE assaulted a teenage Target employee for being brown. True to form, the elitist media seized upon another cell phone video back in January claiming to show ICE agents hauling a teenage Target employee, who was a U.S. citizen, out of the store where he worked, a scene the left immediately used to accuse ICE of profiling brown people and assuming their immigration status. What really happened: The full video from the incident shows the teenage employee hurling profanity at an ICE agent who is attempting to walk into the store. The video then appears to show the employee shoving or swinging at the agent inside the vestibule, prompting the officer to immediately detain the young man. The employee violently resisted arrest, leading multiple other agents to intervene. 6. What the media told you: ICE murdered an LA man for being black. News reports were also quick to pick up on the story of Keith Porter, a black Los Angeles man who was shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve. What really happened: By his own family’s admission, Porter was outside on New Year's Eve firing his AR-style rifle into the air in celebration of the New Year, which is in and of itself a felony and a reckless choice that can easily leave someone dead. An off-duty ICE agent who happened to live in the same apartment complex heard the shots, immediately assumed that it could be an active shooter situation, grabbed his sidearm, and went outside to investigate. The agent told investigators that he confronted Porter, identified himself as law enforcement, and asked him to drop the rifle. He claims Porter refused to drop the weapon and fired at him several times, prompting the officer to fire back in self-defense. The incident, which is still under investigation, was unrelated to ICE or any immigration operations, and never would have occurred had Porter not been firing live rounds into the air in the first place. 7. ICE ripped a newborn baby away from a Tennessee mom. Hand-wringing headlines began popping up on Facebook in December accusing ICE of ripping a baby away from its mother - identified merely as a “Midstate mom” - before cruelly detaining her merely for being a migrant. What really happened: Esther Lopez Sanchez, an illegal alien, was arrested on August 15, 2024 alongside her partner, Roberto Nunez Gomez - also an illegal alien and a convicted felon - on drug and firearm charges. Sanchez, who was pregnant when she was arrested, went into labor at the Rutherford County Jail and was immediately transported to a U.S. hospital, where she gave birth. As is standard procedure both for criminal aliens and U.S. citizens who are imprisoned, Sanchez’s baby was placed in foster care while Sanchez was detained. She was eventually transported to an immigration detention facility in Louisiana where she was processed for immigration violations and its awaiting deportation. The Tennessee Department of Child Services said they are unable to place the child - who is considered a U.S. citizen - with a family member because all identified relatives are also illegal aliens who could be subject to deportation. 8 . ICE kidnapped a 15-year-old employee from a grocery store. A viral video was circulated thousands of times and racked up millions of views after claiming to show ICE arresting a teenage employee at a grocery store in Charlotte, North Carolina, which leftists used to accuse ICE of “disappearing” children on the streets. What really happened: While the Charlotte Observer first reported that the employee was only 15 years old, they later updated their reporting to reflect that they’d gotten that information from the grocery store owner, who had guessed the employee’s age as being “15 or 16.” However, employment records showed the man was actually in his 20s. He was apprehended without incident in the store, but tried to break free from officers in the parking lot, which is why he ended up being zip-tied.

ABC’s The View was fully in the corner for disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon on Monday’s show, following his weekend arrest by federal authorities on a grand jury indictment, stemming from his role in storming a Minneapolis church. In addition to downplaying the charges, they seemed to suggest that the indictment wasn’t real and made up by the Trump administration. At no point did they address any of the charges. Instead, they hinted that the all liberals would end up in prison. As she was leading into the story, moderator Whoopi Goldberg seemed to be hearing about the case for the first time, as she was reading from the teleprompter; needing basic things clarified (Click “expand”): GOLDBERG: So, I just want to understand because I - He was at that protest like a week ago, right, in the church? SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes. GOLDBERG: And then a week later they sent -- HOSTIN: They got a grand jury to indict – GOLDBERG: To indict - HOSTIN: - two counts – Fake Republican Ana Navarro tried to dismiss the legitimacy of the charges and seemed to suggest that the indictment wasn’t real, but something fabricated by the Executive Branch “themselves”: This is after they had gone to three different courts trying to get judges to sign off, and the judges in all three previous cases said to the DOJ, 'get the hell out of my courtroom, you clowns. There is no case here.' So, they basically did it themselves.   The View dismisses the grand jury indictment of Don Lemon and essentially claims the Trump administration forged a court order to arrest him, and claims they only targeted black journalists: ANA NAVARRO: This is after they had gone to three different courts trying to get judges… pic.twitter.com/XAFHLqVkKJ — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 2, 2026   Of course, she tried to squeeze Lemon’s indictment together with the release of the Epstein files, claiming the indictment was a choreographed distraction. “They released the news at the exact same time that they released the Epstein documents,” she said. Navarro also tried to cry ‘racism’ by claiming the Trump administration went out of their way to only charged black journalists: So, make no mistake about it. This was about gaslighting, this was about going against Don Lemon and other journalists. By the way, all of whom happen to be black. Happy Black History Month. And I think it's to send a chilling message to anybody who is covering facts. (…) this administration is afraid of people seeing the truth and being informed. Navarro provided no evidence that any white journalists had joined the rioters at the church, let alone any that escaped prosecution. Counting Lemon among her “dearest friends,” co-host Sunny Hostin proclaimed that the case was meritless and predicted a fast dismissal: And I agree with that. Do you know what happens next is that he will have his day I court and I suspect that this case will be thrown out. This case doesn't have any merit. And I think the National Association of Black Journalists said it best. They said, ‘the First Amendment is not optional and journalism is not a crime.’ And that is absolutely, absolutely true.   Despite the grand jury indictment, Sunny Hostin (who's friends with Lemon) proclaims "this case will be thrown out." While not going over any of the facts of the case, Hosting declares: "[H]e was getting the story and nothing should have gotten in the way of that. He had a… pic.twitter.com/B3uvC56BQR — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 2, 2026   “Don is a journalist, he’s an on the ground journalist. He has been pepper sprayed, he has been tear-gassed, and he was getting the story and nothing should have gotten in the way of that!” Hostin exclaimed. “He had a microphone with him, he had a cameraman with him and he was practicing journalism!” Adding: “This is about scaring other journalists, so that other journalists will not cover this administration!” Goldberg chimed in again as they were going to a commercial break with an insane suggesting that the Trump administration was going to put all liberals in prison, and that Lemon was a signal to that intent. “If it's happening like this for someone who is out and clearly doing his job, what do you think will happen to us?” she asserted while gesturing to the audience. “Now it's like, okay, we all got to stick together with all of this because it's affecting all of us from A to Z.”   Whoopi seems to suggests what happened with Lemon will happen to everyone on the left: "Listen, what I said to you before, you see what's happening, you know what's happening. If it's happening like this for someone who is out and clearly doing his job, what do you think will… pic.twitter.com/39028c42wV — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 2, 2026   The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View February 2, 2026 11:17:58 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, I just want to understand because I - He was at that protest like a week ago, right, in the church? SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes. GOLDBERG: And then a week later they sent -- HOSTIN: They got a grand jury to indict – GOLDBERG: To indict - HOSTIN: - two counts - ANA NAVARRO: This is after they had gone to three different courts trying to get judges to sign off, and the judges in all three previous cases said to the DOJ, 'get the hell out of my courtroom, you clowns. There is no case here.' GOLDBERG: Okay. NAVARRO: So, they basically did it themselves. They did it -- they released the news at the exact same time that they released the Epstein documents. SARA HAINES: Epstein files! NAVARRO: So, make no mistake about it. This was about gaslighting, this was about going against Don Lemon and other journalists. By the way, all of whom happen to be black. Happy Black History Month. And I think it's to send a chilling message – HOSTIN: Correct. NAVARRO: - to anybody who is covering facts. For some reason -- well, I know the reason -- this administration is afraid of people seeing the truth and being informed. And I think they picked on the wrong guy, because Don Lemon is not going to play dead. Dom Lemon was the wherewithal, has the structure, has the team, has the courage, and has the money to fight this administration, and he's going to take it as far as it goes and he’s not going to – [Inaudible] [Applause] HOSTIN: And I agree with that. Do you know what happens next is that he will have his day I court and I suspect that this case will be thrown out. This case doesn't have any merit. And I think the National Association of Black Journalists said it best. They said, ‘the First Amendment is not optional and journalism is not a crime.’ And that is absolutely, absolutely true. [Applause] What's striking to me is that, you know, Don is -- I want to be transparent. You know, Don is of my dearest friends. And so, I felt terrible when I saw this happening and, you know – And I wish everybody had a husband like Don's, Tim, because he looked like Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard! I mean, he doesn’t he doesn’t play about his husband! But, I really think -- I've been with Don in Ferguson, I've been with Don on the ground in South Carolina. Don is a journalist, he’s an on the ground journalist. He has been pepper sprayed, he has been tear-gassed, and he was getting the story and nothing should have gotten in the way of that! He had a microphone with him, he had a cameraman with him and he was practicing journalism! And I think you're right, Ana, this is about - not necessarily about Don because he can fight this. He has the resources. This is about scaring other journalists, so that other journalists will not cover this administration! (…) 11:21:04 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: Well, you know. Listen, this is what I said to you before. You see what's happening, you know what's happening. If it's happening like this for someone who is out and clearly doing his job, what do you think will happen to us? [Gestures to the audience] HOSTIN: Right. GOLDBERG: So, it's important to recognize what we are voting for now. It's not a conversation, it's not a thing. Now it's like, okay, we all got to stick together with all of this because it's affecting all of us from A to Z. We will be right back.

MSN claims users can personalize their news feed, but the digital news gatekeeper’s list of “recommended publishers” to choose from includes 15 left-leaning outlets compared to only two right-leaning ones. Microsoft’s MSN touts its ability to personalize your news feed, claiming that it will provide “[t]he information you expect, more personal than ever.” MRC Free Speech America researchers investigated which outlets MSN recommends, and the results were as biased as you’d expected.  Not only does MSN push leftist outlets over right-leaning outlets in its list of “recommended publishers” at a rate of 15 to 2, it also entirely prevents users from choosing to include three of the top five right-leaning news sites in their personalized feeds. MRC researchers found that MSN does not allow users personalizing their feed to select three of the five most-visited right-leaning sites according to the Press Gazette’s list of the Top 50 news websites in the U.S. in December. According to Press Gazette, Fox News, New York Post, Daily Mail, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit were the top five right-leaning outlets, but alarmingly, only the first two of these outlets were even available to be added to the MSN “personalized” feed. Searches for the other three outlets returned zero results in the MSN ecosystem. MRC researchers examined MSN’s list of “recommended publishers” that can be added to a user’s news feed with just a click. This list contained 100 recommendations. Of these, 42 were outlets that have been given a bias rating by AllSides Media and two (Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire) are magazines MRC has repeatedly called out for leftist bias in past reporting.  While the majority of the outlets MSN recommended (27) have a center rating, there was a clear preference for leftist outlets versus right leaning ones. MSN recommended only two outlets on the right: Fox News, and the Washington Examiner. Conversely, MSN promoted 15 leftist outlets, including radical leftist outlets like AlterNet, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.  MRC President David Bozell explained why MSN’s rejection of right-leaning outlets is even worse than it appears when he spoke with Lara Trump on the Right View Podcast:  “You can go on the MSN News portal, and you can say, ‘Well I would like to choose a different publication to be showcased on my MSN.’ Well, they’ll give you a bunch of recommended publications. You know what’s not on there? Breitbart. You know what’s not on there? Daily Mail. But there’s like, WAVY in Norfolk,10, that you could choose from, or WKRP in Cincinnati that you can choose from. And that’s great, right? I mean, I’m all for having local news thriving, surviving, all those things. That’s great. But you’re telling me that Daily Wire, you know, shouldn’t have a place on MSN’s ecosystem? The Washington Times does not have a channel that you can choose from on MSN’s ecosystem. You have to basically sink or swim with The Washington Post if you’re a Washingtonian.” Recommendations encompassed a variety of recipe web sites such as Tiny Batch Cooking and EatingWell. MSN also recommended leftist tabloid-style magazines like Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and  People that have, for example, compared President Donald Trump to Hitler, pushed abortion or even promoted sexual fetishes. MSN’s bias is particularly concerning because it is a news aggregator, or platform that gathers articles from multiple media sources into a single place. Aggregators are a growing source for people to get their news. According to a report from the Reuters Institute, “engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows,” particularly in the United States.  Methodology: On Jan. 28, 2026, MRC researchers examined the list of recommended publishers on the MSN News tab in a “clean environment,” using the Brave browser and its paid VPN feature to avoid influence from cookies or prior search history on the results. MRC researchers also checked whether outlets that were not on the recommended list could be added to the personalized feed. The bias of the recommended outlets was evaluated using AllSides media bias ratings, which classify outlets as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right.” MRC also added two magazines it has reported on repeatedly (Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire, which were not rated by AllSides) for this analysis.   Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.  

During Monday’s morning newscasts, ABC, CBS, and NBC boasted about a federal judge’s “strongly worded ruling” ordering the release of an illegal immigrant and his five-year-old son allegedly detained by ICE. But they all conveniently left out the Judge’s political leanings and previous anti-Trump social media posts. The order itself was very interesting and, at many times, contains laughable mistakes and design choices.  The order, by Clinton-appointed Judge Fred Birey contained the date "February 31, 2026,” a date that didn't even exist, along with an attached image of Liam that went viral at the end of the order, under the Judge’s signature.  But, nevertheless, all the morning broadcasts shared the story by heavily quoting the court order.     ABC’s John Quinones, during his report on Good Morning America, called the Judge’s order “blistering”:  The U.S. District Judge ordering the pairs release in a blistering ruling. Writing that the case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas. Apparently even if it requires traumatizing children. The judge, including the now viral image of Liam the day he was detained in his driveway arriving home from preschool. Underneath the picture two bible verses, one of which is John 11:35: “Jesus Wept”. Conejo Arias, describing the conditions inside the detention facility as not great. Quinones did share DHS’s statement on the situation where they denied ICE arrested the child and said the father, Adrian Conejo Arias, abandoned his child. Attempting to downplay the accusation, Quinones asked the father if he abandoned the child in the interview, and he responded that he didn't; with no pushback from Quinones. He then shared more on the judges order: The judge also taking aim at some of the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement tactics. Writing “administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called a fox guarding the hen house.”  On CBS Mornings, there was less of a focus on the judge’s order and more of a focus on the actual story of the child, Liam. CBS framed the story from the viewpoint of anti-ICE groups, with correspondent Ian Lee, interviewing an anti-ICE mayor and then an anti-ICE law professor at the University of Minnesota (Click “expand”): “AMADA MARQUEZ SIMULA (COLUMBIA HEIGHTS MAYOR): While we have really good news and a ray of light that - you know, we have some family members coming back. ICE is still here, LEE: Amada Marquez Simula is the mayor of Columbia Heights, where some have banded together to watch out for patrolling federal immigration agents. (To Marquez Simula) How was ICE’s presence affected your community. MARQUEZ SIMULA: It’s literally terrorizing our community. LEE: Ana Pottratz Acosta, a visiting law professor at the University of Minnesota, says the court’s decision to release Liam and his father was aimed squarely at the Trump Administration. ANA POTTRATZ ACOSTA: It was really a rebuke against the Department of Homeland Security. In a short report on NBC’s Today show, reporter Maggie Vespa stated the release of Liam brought a “rare sigh of relief to this city” before quoted the anti-Trump federal judge: Now, the release was ordered over the weekend by a federal judge, who in his ruling blasted the Trump Administration's overall tactics as, quote, “an ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas. Apparently, even if it requires traumatizing children." Vespa also tried to connect the release to a measles outbreak at the detention site and implied the 5-year-old’s presence at the site gave may have given him the measles after a recent outbreak: Now, remember, last week, Congressman Castro, when he had first visited Liam, said it seemed like the preschooler, according to his dad, had fallen ill. We're out to the family attorney about this latest headline. It is worth noting before Liam was released, DHS said a pediatrician had examined him while he was at that facility and found, in their words, no medical concerns. All the broadcast networks ignored the political leanings of the Clinton-appointed judge, who has a history of anti-Trump orders and social media posts, as reported by Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin. If it was a conservative judge in another case, they would be sure to include it in all of their pieces. The transcript(s) are below. Click to expand:  ABC’s Good Morning America February 2, 2026 7:06:06 AM Eastern ROBIN ROBERTS: But now, our exclusive interview. You’ll recognize this image right here that got national attention. A small boy wearing a Spider-Man backpack detained by federal agents in Minnesota along with his father. They are back home after a federal judge ordered their release in a strongly worded ruling that condemned the government's conduct. John Quinones spoke with the father and son on the flight back home with them. Good morning, John. JOHN QUINONES: Good morning Robin. It was a very emotional flight from San Antonio to Minneapolis. A father and son headed home and family reunited.  [Cuts to video] QUINONES : (Translated) How are you? How do you feel? ADRIAN CONEJO ARIAS: (Translated) Good. QUINONES: All good? CONEJO ARIAS: (Translated) Yes, happy. QUINONES: ‘Feliz’ means happy and that's how Adrian Conejo Arias and his 5-year-old son Liam are feeling this morning following the release from a Texas detention facility, spanning more than a week in federal custody. ABC News exclusively joining the father and son on their journey back home to Minneapolis Sunday. Conejo Arias, originally from Ecuador, says they were arrested unjustly. CONEJO ARIAS: (Translated) It is unjust that they arrest people who only come to this country to work hard and get their families ahead. QUINONES: But now that they're going back home, Liam is looking forward to reuniting with his mother and his brother. The U.S. District judge ordering the pairs release in a blistering ruling. Writing that, “The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.” The judge, including the now viral image of Liam the day he was detained in his driveway arriving home from preschool. Underneath the picture two bible verses, one of which is John 11:35: “Jesus Wept”. Conejo Arias, describing the conditions inside the detention facility as not great. QUINONES: (To Conejo Arias) They could not get him medicine? CONEJO ARIAS: No QUINONES: Alleging that Liam became sick while there and was denied medication.  The father and son’s detainment sparking national outcry. The Department of Homeland Security said ICE did not target or arrest a child. Claiming that when agents went to arrest the father, he fled on foot, abandoning his child. [To Conejo Arias] The government says you abandoned your son. I asked Arias about that account. CONEJO ARIAS: (Translated) The only thing I did was shout. QUINONES: He tells me he was walking a few feet ahead of Liam, trying to alert people who would come out and who could help them. He says, I love my son too much, I would never abandon him. The judge also taking aim at some of the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement tactics. Writing “administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called a fox guarding the hen house.”  [Cuts back to live] Adrian Conejo reminds us his family is in the U.S. legally. They filed for asylum and have a court hearing set for that later this month.  But the U.S. Justice Department vows to fight that. They want to see this family deported. George? GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS: John Quinones, thanks.   CBS Mornings February 2, 2026 7:15:25 AM Eastern VLADIMIR DUTHIERS: A five-year-old boy who became a symbol of the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis was released from ICE custody over the weekend after a judge’s order. Liam Ramos and his father Adrian Arias were detained two weeks ago and taken to Texas. Homeland Security officials say Arias entered the country illegally. Their lawyers say he has a pending asylum claim. Ian Lee has more. [Cuts to video] IAN LEE: Cellphone video posted to social media by Democratic Representative Joaquin Castro shows five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father walking out of an ICE family detention center in Texas. On Sunday, they were flown back to Minnesota and returned home to Columbia Heights, a northern suburb of Minneapolis. AMADA MARQUEZ SIMULA (COLUMBIA HEIGHTS MAYOR): While we have really good news and a ray of light that - you know, we have some family members coming back. ICE is still here, LEE: Amada Marquez Simula is the mayor of Columbia Heights, where some have banded together to watch out for patrolling federal immigration agents. (To Marquez Simula) How was ICE’s presence affected your community. MARQUEZ SIMULA: It’s literally terrorizing our community. LEE: Ana Pottratz Acosta, a visiting law professor at the University of Minnesota, says the court’s decision to release Liam and his father was aimed squarely at the Trump Administration. ANA POTTRATZ ACOSTA: It was really a rebuke against the Department of Homeland Security. LEE: Can Liam and his father sleep easily tonight. ACOSTA: I would say so. LEE: The situation around Minneapolis sparked anti-ICE demonstrations across the country over the weekend, from New York to California. On Friday the Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti. President Trump announced this weekend he is now advising the Department of Homeland Security not to intervene and protest occurring in cities led by Democrats unless local authorities ask for federal help. TRUMP: If they want help they have to ask for it because if we go in, all they do is complain. (Cuts back to live) LEE: The Department of Homeland Security says it did not target or arrest Liam, saying his father wanted him to remain with him while he was detained. On Sunday, the same detention center where they were held confirmed it had an active measles outbreak. Nate? NATE BURLESON: Ian, thank you.   NBC’s Today February 2, 2026 8:04:34 AM Eastern  CRAIG MELVIN: Meanwhile, some new developments tied to the ongoing ICE raids in Minnesota. The five-year-old detained by ICE agents with his dad is back in the Minneapolis area this morning. This as we're learning they may have a measles outbreak at the Texas detention facility where they were being held. NBC's Maggie Vespa joins us now with the very latest. Maggie, good morning. MAGGIE VESPA: Craig, good morning. We'll start with the homecoming of little Liam Ramos, bringing a rare sigh of relief to this city. New photos and videos released over the weekend showing him and his father leaving that South Texas detention facility and traveling home yesterday, all smiles. This almost two weeks after they were detained in their snowy Minnesota driveway, with images of Liam in that little blue hat instantly going viral and igniting global outrage. Now, their release was ordered over the weekend by a federal judge, who in his ruling blasted the Trump Administration's overall tactics as, quote, “an ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently, even if it requires traumatizing children.” Now, they were escorted out of the facility, it's worth noting, by Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro, whose chief of staff later in court filings said ICE had told them that there's a growing measles outbreak at that facility that houses kids and families and has been the sight of recent protests. DHS confirming at least two detainees have fallen ill inside that facility, and telling us in a statement that they're, quote “ceasing all movement within the facility and quarantining all individuals suspected of making contact with the infected.”  Now, remember, last week, Congressman Castro, when he had first visited Liam, said it seemed like the preschooler, according to his dad, had fallen ill. We're out to the family attorney about this latest headline. It is worth noting before Liam was released, DHS said a pediatrician had examined him while he was at that facility and found, in their words, no medical concerns. Craig? MELVIN: Maggie Vespa for us, there on the ground in Minneapolis. Thank you.

Last Friday morning, former CNN Anchor Don Lemon was arrested along with three others, in connection with the January 18th anti-ICE attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was later charged with conspiracy to deprive rights and violation of the FACE Act, and was released without bail. As expected the liberal media, led by his former CNN colleagues, immediately came to Lemon's defense, portraying the arrest as vindictive, and a violation of the First Amendment. But that night on Fox, Jesse Watters Primetime laid out a strong case against Lemon. Lemon claims that he was acting as a journalist in covering the protest at the Church. Watters disputed that with this description: "Lemon joined a rowdy mob that busted into Sunday mass, trapped the congregation in the pews, and started threatening them, screaming at them, intimidating them. They told kids their parents would burn in hell." And Watters was just getting started. WATTERS: ..Not a single journalist has ever done this. Why? Because it's illegal and despicable... Journalists can't commit crimes and get off because they filmed it. You can't break into someone's house and interview the owner while your crew steals the furniture. Don Lemon wasn't even a reporter documenting a protest, that spontaneously turned into a riot. He was in on the crime. Lemon met up with the mob ahead of time. He knew the target. And admitted he was in on the operation. Shutting down a Church service was the goal. Lemon knew it. It was premeditated. Watters then played a clip of Lemon from just before the attack on the Church. LEMON: They're getting the operation together...This is an operation that's a secret, that they invited folks out, I can't tell you what's going to happen but you can watch it live unfold here on the Don Lemon Show. The reason they have so many white people here is because they need allies... I turned our camera off because they are giving some critical information here, but there we go, everybody's ready to go. Then Watters asked the obvious, "When does a journalist turn off their cameras? His job is to give us critical information, not hide it. He's admitting he's conspiring to conceal evidence of a crime."  He even played a clip of CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter, who made this surprising admission: "But he clearly knew something was taking place that day with the protesters. He told his viewers on YouTube to stay tuned, because there was something about to happen." Watters then continued making his case vs Lemon. WATTERS: At one point when Lemon was inside the Church he said he was surprised that the cops hadn't shown up yet, acknowledging that he knew it was against the law. ..He was encouraging and supporting the reprehensible behavior, and at one point thanked the ringleader. Lemon wasn't an independent journalist, he was on their team. At that point Watters played a clip of someone in the pre-invasion group assuring a man who seemed to be in charge, that Lemon was "very much on our team.", and then another clip of Lemon serving up refreshments to that group, asking, "who wants some coffee." Watters would soon gave his closing argument. WATTERS: The freedom to worship is nearly absolute in America. If you can burst into houses of worship and start threatening people America is over... . And journalists don't have a right to shut down Church services. No one has that right. Being a journalist doesn't put you above the law. I know that's what many people in the news think.. I know Don Lemon is probably going to say he was targeted because he was black or he was gay but being black or being gay doesn't put you above the law either." Watters then pointed out that Lemon is innocent until proven guilty. Very true. But after this presentation, Lemon should be thankful that Jesse Watters isn't a member of the prosecution.