Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA), 24 January (LaPresse) – US federal immigration agents detained a two-year-old girl and her father outside their home in South Minneapolis. The girl was subsequently released and is now with her mother, lawyer Irina Vaynerman told the Associated Press. Vaynerman said she quickly challenged the family's detention in federal court. The girl, a citizen of Ecuador, was brought to the United States as a newborn. Both the minor and her father, Elvis Tipan Echeverria, have pending asylum claims and neither is subject to a final order of removal. On Thursday, a US district judge barred the government from transferring the girl out of the state, but according to court documents, about 20 minutes later she and her father were on a commercial flight to Texas. They were brought back on Friday. Officers arrested Tipan Echeverria during a targeted police operation, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DHS said the girl's mother was in the area but refused to take her daughter.