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The judge condemned the administration’s apparent ā€œignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independenceā€ and Thomas Jefferson’s warnings against ā€œa would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation.ā€

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    I didn’t say to overturn the judgment. But this could bring him harm. But him being a ā€œChristianā€ to flaunt his beliefs is more important to this self-absorbed piece of shit judge.

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      Its more in the sense the maga and the proud boies all cry about the bible and christianity. He spoke in their words and proved their evil. I think he did a fine job with this, honestly. Especially given the whole context.

      We need to learn to take off our horse glasses and watch further than religion, especially in times like these.

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        Excuses ā€œin times like theseā€ is what got USA to this point. Principles that are dropped when the going gets tough aren’t principles, they’re an aesthetic.