A judge on Saturday ordered the US to release a five-year-old boy and his father from a Texas detention center where they were taken after being detained in suburban Minneapolis last month.

Pictures of Liam Cone Ramos wearing a bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack while surrounded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have sparked more outrage over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. It also led to protests at the family detention center and a visit from two Texas Democratic members of Congress.

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, appointed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton, said in his ruling that “the case has its genesis in the government’s ill-conceived and incompetently executed pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”

The same judge previously ruled that the boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, could not be removed from the US, at least for now.

In his order Saturday, Biery said, “the government’s disregard for America’s historic document called the Declaration of Independence is also apparent,” suggesting the Trump administration’s actions echo those author and future president Thomas Jefferson listed as grievances against England.

Biery also included in his ruling a photo of Liam Cone Ramos and references to two lines in the Bible: “Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me and do not forbid them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven'” and “Jesus wept.”

Stephen Miller, the White House chief of staff for policy, said the goal is 3,000 immigration arrests per day. It appears to be the figure described by the judge as a “quota”.

Spokesmen for the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Neighbors and school officials say federal immigration officials in Minnesota used a preschooler as “bait” by telling him to knock on his door so his mother would answer. The Department of Homeland Security called that description of the event a “blatant lie.” The father is said to have fled on foot and left the boy in a speeding vehicle in their driveway.

During a Jan. 28 visit with Reps. Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett, the boy was sleeping in his father’s arms, who said Liam was often tired and not eating well at the detention facility, which houses about 1,100 people, according to Castro.

Detained families have reported poor conditions such as worms in food, a struggle for clean water and poor medical care at the detention center since it reopened last year. In December, a report filed by ICE confirmed that about 400 children were held longer than the recommended 20-day limit.