NEW YORK – A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered the release of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from the immigration detention center in Texas, where they were taken from Minnesota on January 20, causing great public outcry. Consternation in the country.

Judge Fred Biery's ruling demands the release of the Ecuadorian boy and his father by Tuesday from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dille, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

According to the newspaper, the judge stated in his ruling that the case against the minor and his father “has its genesis in the government's ill-conceived and incompetently implemented pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”

Liam and his father were detained in Minneapolis on January 22

Four minors, including Liam, and a ten-year-old girl, were detained on January 22 in the Columbia Heights school district in Minnesota by ICE immigration agents as part of the intensive raids that the Trump Administration is carrying out in this state, which have resulted in two deaths.

Liam and his father were arrested at their front door as they returned from school and taken to the family detention center in Texas, sparking outrage and protests across the country when an image of the boy wearing a blue bunny winter hat and carrying a Spider-Man backpack while a masked federal agent stood behind him as he waited for his mother to open the door was widely circulated.

This week, a group of members of Congress, including Joaquin Castro, visited the center to assess its conditions and also met with the boy's father, whose deportation was also blocked by the court.

Inhumane conditions and concern for Liam

During the visit, Ramos's father told Castro that his son "has not been the same" since the family was detained and that he is worried about his well-being.

The lawyers representing the Ramos family have stated that they are legally in the United States as part of an asylum application,but the Immigration agency maintains that their permit expired last April. Their defense team has denounced the terrible conditions at the center: The water is contaminated and often undrinkable. The food contains insects, dirt, and other debris, making it inedible. The children receive no education; they have barely an hour a day, which functions more like a daycare. The guards treat them harshly and humiliate them. This is a developing story.