Federal officials must release Adrian Arias and his 5-year-old son, Liam, from detention, a federal district court judge ruled on Saturday.
Jan. 31 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials must release Adrian Arias and his 5-year-old son, Liam, from detention, a federal district court judge ruled on Saturday.
U.S. District Court of Western Texas Judge Fred Biery Jr. on Saturday granted a writ of habeas corpus petition naming the father and son.
Biery likened his strongly worded ruling to placing a „judicial finger in the constitutional dike.“
The petitioners „seek nothing more than some modicum of due process and the rule of law“, Biery wrote.
„The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently, even if it requires traumatizing children“, he said.
„This court and others regularly send undocumented people to prison and orders them deported but do so by proper legal procedures“, Biery added.
