Judge Fred Biery lambasts Trump’s ‘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 “ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas” that appears to require “traumatizing children.”
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The judge condemned the administration’s apparent “ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence” and Thomas Jefferson’s warnings against “a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation.”
How can you tell you’re in a republicans house? The bible still has shrink wrap.
That or the pages are littered with paragraph-long highlights, underscores, and “THIS!!!” in the margins but no critical thought or insights on the passages
And all those notes and the heavily-read pages are in the Old Testament portion, while the New Testament portion is barely touched.
Yeah, the Bible should not enter legal documents and a judge seemingly taking guidance from it should be disbarred.
Leave it to militant atheists to be more concerned about fighting religion than about fighting fascism
It’s game over when a judge quotes the Bible…
This is becoming Christians Sharia law
Judge Fred Biery was appointed by Clinton and actually blocked the 2025 state law that would otherwise have required displaying the 10 Commandments in public classrooms.
I see this as him pointing out to Trump’s supporters that the actions of this administration are not only inhumane but run contrary to core Christian teachings. If the “pro-Christian” administration isn’t being very Christian then call out their hypocrisy.
No excuses. Religion doesn’t belong in the courtroom and they should be disbarred, a true servant of justice can’t have other masters, their true colors are now known and his dedication to justice clearly lacking.
That his lack of respect for his position is only now apparent changes nothing.
Holy shit. Get mad at people who are actually the problem not the ones helping.
This is, uh, this is not how judges normally sign off on opinions:
He’s trying to add every single bit of gravitas to his order
It’s amazing, tbh, one thing I didn’t expect from this entire situation is that the judiciary starts to really flex their literary and theatrical muscles in their authority, because while most legal business is rote ritual, they take advantage of that with this, and allow their legal opinions and the weight of their urgency to be seen
It gives me a little hope
Appeals courts will overturn. The patriotism of some of the district court judges does not seem to apply to higher courts. Or state courts for that matter fuck them all
the date on the order is 2/31/2026… 🤦
The fuck?
It only adds to the sense that he was quivering with barely restrained rage as he wrote the order, which also came through in the text quite nicely I thought.
