Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has responded after a federal judge’s ruling claimed the department is “traumatizing children.”

Federal Judge Fred Biery for the Western District of Texas, appointed by President Bill Clinton, on Saturday ordered the release of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father from immigration detention.

Biery asserted the case of the child and his father “has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”

Reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents taking a 5-year-old into custody in Minneapolis became national news about 10 days ago, when an image of ICE agents with a little boy in a blue hat and a Spiderman backpack went viral.

ICE agents sought to arrest the boy’s father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, when the man fled from agents on foot, “abandoning his........

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