Judge Fred Biery lambasts Trump’s ā€˜ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented’ mass deportation campaign

A federal judge has ordered the release of a five-year-old boy and his father who were detained by federal immigration agents from their driveway in suburban Minneapolis and sent to a detention center in Texas.

In his ruling on Saturday, District Judge Fred Biery delivered a brutal assessment of Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and an ā€œill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotasā€ that appears to require ā€œtraumatizing children.ā€

Liam Conejo Ramos was taken into federal custody from the driveway of his family’s home last week after officers arrested his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, who is seeking asylum in the United States. They were sent to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas, where the preschooler is reportedly sick, lethargic and asking for his mother, according to his family and lawmakers who visited him this week.

The judge condemned the administration’s apparent ā€œignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independenceā€ and Thomas Jefferson’s warnings against ā€œa would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation.ā€

  • Gathorall@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    No religion belongs in the courtroom. It is by definition inappropriate and he should be punished for this.

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      You act like there’s ever been separation of church and state. There has not.

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        All states so indeed still have some theocratic elements. That is precisely why religion should be given no quarter, it already more prominence in goverment than it ever deserved.

        Freedom of religion in most states is just placing religious people above rules that bind everyone else, religious people don’t need the addition of lax enforcement of the few guidelines that exist to expand their extreme unearned privilege.

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          You’re arguing what should be. I would argue the same. We’re explaining what is.

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      he should be punished for this

      Why our country is doomed and its downfall will wreck the whole world along the way, summed up in one sentence.

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        Honestly, its mind numbing. Good intent should be respected no matter from which culture or religion is coming from. Divided we fall, united we stand.