Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and father from ICE detention center
- A judge ordered the U.S. to release 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from a Texas detention center after they were detained in Minneapolis last month.
- U.S. District Judge Fred Biery stated, "the case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas."
- Neighbors reported that federal immigration officers in Minnesota used Liam as "bait" to capture his mother.
- Since reopening last year, detained families have reported poor conditions at the detention center, including worms in food and inadequate medical care.
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Judge orders release of 5-year-old, whose detention drew outrage
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of a 5-year-old boy and his father from immigration custody, condemning their removal from their suburban Minneapolis neighborhood as unconstitutional.
The five-year-old and his father, who had been detained by the ECI since 20 January, were to be released by order of a Texas judge, after an arrest that had aroused a strong indignation. ...
A US federal judge has ordered the release of a five-year-old boy and his father from a Texas immigration detention center, calling their detention a "perfidious lust for unbridled power" and warning that deportations through the US immigration system should be handled more humanely.
He was taken from his home by the alien police wearing a blue bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack.
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