"U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, who sits in San Antonio and was appointed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton, said in his ruling that "the case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children." Biery had previously ruled that the boy and his father could not be removed from the U.S., at least for now."
"In his order Saturday, Biery said: "apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence," suggesting the Trump administration's actions echo those that then-author and future President Thomas Jefferson enumerated as grievances against England's King George. Among them: "He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People" and "He has excited domestic Insurrection among us.""
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered that a 5-year-old boy and his father be released from a Texas detention center by Tuesday after immigration officers detained them in Minnesota. The boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, was pictured wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack, images that sparked public outcry, a protest at the Dilley facility, and visits from two Texas Democratic members of Congress. The father and son were detained in Columbia Heights on Jan. 20 and transferred to Dilley, Texas. Biery sharply criticized enforcement practices, citing deportation quotas, invoking lines from the Declaration of Independence and the Bible, and previously barred their removal from the U.S.
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