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Federal authorities are releasing fourth-grader Elizabeth Zuna, the archetypal of respective students detained by migration officers successful the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights, the city's schoolhouse superintendent said precocious Tuesday.
Elizabeth and her parent were "picked up by ICE connected their mode to school" connected Jan. 6 and were being held astatine the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, Zena Stenvik said successful a statement. Dilley is simply a municipality successful utmost southeast Texas.
It wasn't wide erstwhile they would travel backmost to Minnesota owed successful portion to a measles outbreak astatine the detention installation that "may necessitate a quarantine period," Stenvik said, adding that "we bash not cognize the presumption of Elizabeth's wellness astatine this time."
But, she went connected to say, "We are filled with joyousness astatine the anticipation of the household erstwhile Elizabeth's begetter tin erstwhile again beryllium reunited with his girl and wife."
Columbia Heights is the aforesaid metropolis wherever five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his begetter were detained precocious past period successful a lawsuit that sparked overmuch controversy. Both were released from Dilley and returned location Sunday, a time aft a national justice ordered ICE to escaped them.
Columbia Heights schools reopened Tuesday pursuing a racially and politically motivated weaponry threat that forced them to adjacent for the time connected Monday, CBS News Minnesota reported.
While it was a alleviation for territory residents to see Liam instrumentality home, Stenvik said the conflict is acold from over.
"Having Liam instrumentality to his household has provided america with a glimmer of hope, but it is bittersweet," she said, pointing retired that 4 different Columbia Heights students were inactive successful national custody astatine Dilley. Elizabeth's merchandise would permission three.
Stenvik besides said dozens of parents of Columbia Heights simple schoolers person been taken by national agents.
She observed that portion galore radical are hoping for de-escalation of tensions and of the ICE beingness successful the district, she hasn't seen any.
In her connection precocious Monday, Stenvik said, "We person been precise acrophobic astir (Elizabeth) and our different students and families who are unjustly being held successful detention centers. We question the afloat merchandise of each children and unjustly detained parents from detention halfway crossed our country.
"We question a diplomatic and peaceful solution to extremity this panic that the enhanced migration enforcement is causing successful our community, our authorities and our county."
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