Footage of Liam being taken by ICE while wearing a Spiderman backpack and blue hat sparked outrage on social media and around the world.
Now, Liam’s family have claimed that the Department of Homeland Security is hitting them with ‘retaliatory’ obstacles, and is trying to push forward deportation proceedings for Liam and his father.
After their detention in Minnesota on January 20, the pair were taken to an ICE facility in Texas, where they were kept with other children and families.
Danielle Molliver from Nwojocha & Operana Law Offices is representing the family, and said that a motion filed by the DHS on Wednesday aims to expedite their deportation.Molliver said that this sort of reaction is ‘not very common’, and said she believes that the DHS motion is ‘retaliatory’.
« It’s really frustrating as an attorney, because they keep throwing new obstacles in our way, » she said. « There’s absolutely no reason that this should be expedited. It’s not very common. »
