Peter Bowes

So the boy stayed with the father. They were both detained and taken over a thousand miles to a detention facility in Texas. And that's where they stayed until this weekend when a judge ordered them to be released.

and at the same time issued quite a strongly worded statement, clearly directed at the administration. He said that the boy's detention was cruel and bereft of human decency. He said the case originated in the, just to quote the judge, the ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas. Apparently, he said, even if it requires traumatizing children.

Yeah, quite strong language. But will these releases help calm tensions in Minneapolis?

I think it'll calm tensions to a certain extent, because this particular case, and in large part because of that photograph of the little boy with his blue bunny hat and his Spiderman backpack going viral on social media, it had attracted a lot of attention internationally. People calling for his release and his father's release should say that he isn't the first child to be detained in this way, but this did seem to garner a lot of attention.

and people were calling quite aggressively for him to be released, and that has happened now, so I think it'll calm tensions in that area. But in terms of bigger picture, there is still a lot of tension, still a lot of nervousness, I think it's fair to say, in Minneapolis about what's going on, and other cities around the country, as the Trump administration continues to essentially pursue its immigration policies, even though it appeared to pull back a little from its tactics that it's been using in Minnesota.

Is this the end of the matter? The Trump administration quite often hit back after these kind of reversals.

Yes, well it looks as if that's what's happening in this case, that the administration has indicated that it will appeal this particular judge's ruling. So this looks like it could be something that will get locked up in the courts for the foreseeable future before any final decision is made. I should say that the family insists that the father is legitimately in this country while he pursues his claim for asylum, which...

Again he says, or the lawyer says, that he went through all the proper channels to get into the country and should be allowed to stay here while he goes through the legal process of deciding whether he can stay indefinitely.

It's not so tangible that you could see that people are rushing to supermarkets or bigger stores to get kind of supplies in terms of a war breaks out. But, you know, when you talk to friends and relatives and people around you, you could see that people have planned these to have some sort of stock supplies of food and patrol and also plan if they have relatives in small towns or if they have kind of

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They are separate lawsuits, but very similar in nature and essentially have the same goal, and that is to try to stop the, as Minnesota describes it, the surge in the number of these federal immigration agents to these respective states.

Minnesota's lawsuit argues that the deployment...

which has now been going on for some time and is increasing, it seems, daily, that the deployment amounts to an unconstitutional federal invasion, one, it says, which has suspended life for millions and caused chaos and violence.

And its initial goal is to get a court order to...

take effect possibly within the next 24 hours, a temporary restraining order to stop these agents being deployed.

As you say, we've just heard some pretty strong words and some strong reasoning why this, as they see it, lawsuit is justified, talking about racial profiling and these agents picking up people who...

are American citizens and just going about their ordinary work or going to their workplace or going home, being embroiled in this plan to round up illegal immigrants.

In the Illinois case, this is also being brought by the city of Chicago, they have said that the Trump administration has unleashed an organised bombardment and is imposing a climate of fear.

And in both cases, the legal reasoning...

is that essentially what the federal government is doing is a violation of the US Constitution because it's infringing, they say, on the state's rights, essentially the right to govern themselves.