A federal judge ruled Monday that a Minnesota preschooler who is being held with his father in Texas cannot be immediately deported.

Liam Conejo Ramos, 5 years oldwas taken from the family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents arrested her father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias.

The Department of Homeland Security said investigators took the boy because Liam’s father claimed to be an “illegal alien” from Ecuador and asked him to stay with him.

But a lawyer for Liam’s family said Conejo had committed no crime and had “complied with all established procedures” to legally seek asylum in the United States, including “attending court hearings.”

Liam and his father fly across the country South Texas Family Resident Center A family ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas.

The father filed a lawsuit against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other federal officials.

On Monday, a federal judge ruled that “any potential or anticipated removal or transfer of appellant Adrian Conejo Arias and her minor child, LCR, is immediately stayed pending further order from this court,” court documents state.

Additionally, federal officials “shall not transport appellant Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor child, LCR, outside this jurisdiction during the pendency of this action and until further order of this court,” the ruling states.

CNN has reached out to the family’s attorney and DHS for comment.

Before being taken to Texas, Liam was a “PreK 4” student at Valley View Elementary School in Minnesota.

In the past month, at least three children from Liam’s school district have He was also taken to ICE. Agent Columbia Heights Public Schools said.

This is a developing story and will be updated.