ICE ordered to release 5-year-old boy and father weeks after arbitrary arrest

A US judge has ordered the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release a five-year-old boy and his father after their arbitrary arrest.

ICE officers detained Liam Conejo Ramos and his father in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and transferred him to an ICE detention center in Texas.

US District Judge Fred Biery ruled on Saturday that Ramos’s detention was illegal, ordering the release of the five-year-old boy and his father from the ICE facility in Texas.

Judge Biery condemned the detention of the child as a result of “the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty” by “some among us.”

“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 wrote in his ruling.

“Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of ‌the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly ‌and humane policy than currently in place,” he added.

Judge Biery did not specify the deportation quota he was referring to, but Stephen Miller, the White House chief of staff for policy, has previously said there was a target of 3,000 immigration arrests a day.

Meanwhile, anti-ICE protests continue across the United States.

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The ongoing crackdown in the state of Minnesota has been the largest federal immigration enforcement operation ever carried out in the United States.

The deployment of some 3,000 agents to the area has prompted daily clashes between activists and immigration officers, and led to the killings of two American citizens by federal agents.

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