Federal judge orders Trump Administration to release five-year-old boy and his father
(NBC, KYMA) - A federal judge has ordered the release of five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from immigration custody.
The boy's immigration case drew widespread attention last month when this photo of him wearing a blue hat went viral online.
The photo was captured while he was taken into custody by immigration authorities in Minnesota as he was on his way home from school.
The boy and his father have since been transferred to a family residential center in Texas.
On Saturday, Federal Judge Fred Biery ordered the Trump Administration to release them by Tuesday.
In his order, the judge referred to the boy's detention writing the "lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency," and then added, "the rule of law be damned."
