Thursday, February 5, 2026

Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano Is Released. Liam Conejo Ramos Returned Home. Two Other Colombia Heights Elementary School Children Were Just Released. But Now What?

I have been beyond grateful to hear that Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother were released from the ICE detention center in Texas. That Liam and his dad returned to MN so they can start to process and heal from what has happened to them. How two siblings in second and fifth grade from the same Colombia Heights elementary school as Liam Ramos, were released after a week of being detained. 

Because that is at least something, even though it never should have happened in the first place.

Because there are others that do not get returned. That do not get to be together as families.

But what happens next? What new processes are being put in place so that this doesn't happen again to anyone? Who's giving the guarantee that families aren't going to be broken up?

That a 5 year-old doesn't get used as bait and then detained. 

Tell me what's really going to change.

The only way that really happens, because no one has shown otherwise, is for ICE and Operation Metro Surge to be done. 

And until then, I don't know what else we can do but fight.