Matt Sepik

For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in St.

Paul.

The latest to submit their resignations include a victim's advocate, three prosecutors, and four civil division attorneys.

That's according to a person familiar with the situation who's not authorized to speak publicly.

NPR first reported three of the resignations last week.

The departures mean that the Minnesota U.S.

Attorney's Office has now lost all of the lawyers who were prosecuting a series of major social service program fraud cases involving dozens of defendants.

U.S.

Attorney Dan Rosen has brought in prosecutors from elsewhere in the country, as well as military lawyers.

For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in St.

Paul.

Liam Conejo Ramos was photographed wearing a blue hat with bunny ears and a Spider-Man backpack when masked ICE agents pulled him from his dad's car on January 20 after school.

Local school officials say agents led the five-year-old to his front door and directed him to knock to see if anyone else was home.

ICE flew the boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, to a Texas detention center.

In ordering their release Saturday, Judge Fred Beery called the move a, quote, perfidious lust for unbridled power that's, quote, bereft of human decency.

Attorneys say the family, from Ecuador, is focusing on finding peace.

They entered the U.S.

legally in 2024 to seek asylum, their lawyers said.

For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.

We just don't get snow like this very often.