"U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, who 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." The same judge had previously ruled that the boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, could not be removed from the U.S., at least for now."
"Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, with a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack being surrounded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers, sparked even more outcry about President Trump's administration's immigration crackdown in Minnesota. It also led to a protest at the family detention center and a visit by two Texas Democratic members of Congress."
"Stephen Miller, the White House chief of staff for policy, has said there's a target of 3,000 immigration arrests a day. It's that figure which the judge seemed to describe as a "quota." Spokespersons from the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately reply to requests for comment."
A U.S. district judge ordered the government to release a 5-year-old boy and his father from a Texas detention center by Tuesday. The pair had been detained by immigration officers in a Minneapolis suburb last month. Photographs of the boy wearing a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack surrounded by ICE officers provoked outcry, a protest at the family detention center and a visit by two Texas Democratic members of Congress. The judge criticized the government's pursuit of daily deportation targets as ill-conceived and traumatizing to children, referenced the Declaration of Independence and biblical lines, and had previously blocked their removal. Justice and Homeland Security spokespeople did not immediately comment.
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