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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward and Bel Trew

Judge quotes Bible and Thomas Jefferson as he orders release of 5-year-old and father detained by ICE

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 President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and an “ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas” that appears to require “traumatizing children.”

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