The image of ICE arresting the child wearing his Spiderman backpack and his bright blue hat with bunny ears spread across the Internet. He and his father were arrested and sent to a detention center in Texas. Today, a federal judge ordered ICE to release them both.

The New York Times reported :

A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of a 5-year-old boy and his father from immigration custody, condemning their removal from their suburban Minneapolis neighborhood as unconstitutional.

The image of Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing a Spider-Man backpack and an oversize fluffy blue winter hat as he was detained by officers earlier this month, spurred outrage at a moment when many were already incensed by the Trump administration’s harsh immigration tactics in Minnesota and elsewhere across the country.

In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery of Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas condemned “the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.”

The boy’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, was also arrested and the pair were taken to an immigration detention center outside San Antonio.

Judge Biery, who was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton, said both Liam and his father must be released from custody by Tuesday. His brief but fiery ruling chastised the government’s “ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence” and called for “a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place.”

At the bottom of his three-page ruling, he included the photo of Liam, standing in front of a car, as well as two Bible verses. It was ordered, he wrote, “with a judicial finger in the constitutional dike.”