U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered the release of Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son, Liam Conejo Ramos, from immigration detention in a scathing opinion filed Saturday.

“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apparently even if it requires traumatizing children … Apparent also is the government’s ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence,” writes Biery.