Judge had rare scathing message for Trump after ordering release of 5-year-old detained by ICE
A presiding judge has slammed the Trump administration as he signed a very important paper in relation to the detention of a five-year-old boy who allegedly fell ill while in holding.
Minneapolis has been up in arms as ICE agents swept through the Minnesota city, and it was reported that four children had been detained.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have recently been met with protests across the nation, particularly after Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross and Alex Pretti was killed weeks later. On January 20, five-year-old preschooler Liam Ramos was apprehended by ICE officials and taken into custody, which has only fueled the nation's frustrations with the government.
The little boy had returned with his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, when they were snatched up and taken away, said the superintendent of Liam's school, Zena Stenvik.
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Liam is one of those four children from the school district in Columbia Heights who have reportedly been detained by agents.
Upheaval soon followed after an image of Liam being taken into a car wearing his little Spiderman backpack and blue cap was spread online and all over the media. But things got worse when it was reported that he had fallen ill in the detention center in Texas and has since been asking for his mom.
Now, a federal judge has ordered the release of Liam and his father in his Saturday ruling (January 31).
District Judge Fred Biery provided a brutal comment to President Donald Trump’s administration, calling it an ‘ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas’ that includes ‘traumatizing children.’
The judge went on to school the government in its own declaration, telling them of their ‘ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence’.
Judge Biery went on to quote former POTUS Thomas Jefferson, who had warned against ‘a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation’. He also quoted the Fourth Amendment, stating that the ‘administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster’
“That is called the fox guarding the henhouse,” he explained. “The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.”
This safeguard has since protected the boy and ‘trumps’ the government's detention, wrote the judge.
“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency,” he said. “And the rule of law be damned.”
In the three-page order, the judge included the viral image of Liam, and two Bible verses: Matthew 19:14 and John 11:35.
The verse from Matthew states, per Bible Gateway: "Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these’", and the John passage states: “Jesus wept.”
In his order, he states that Liam and his father must be released by 3 February, after having previously blocked efforts to move their location.
Topics: Donald Trump, Immigration, Politics, US News, Texas
Britt Jones