If you had to pick a poster child to summarize the impact of Joe Biden’s reckless immigration policies, Liam Ramos would be a good choice. His family’s situation has all the systemic flaws of the immigration system that globalist ideologues have magnified or weaponized to bring in millions of inadmissible aliens.

Liam isn’t the villain, of course. He’s a cute little boy for whom any sentient adult wants the best. Much like the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez a generation before him, Liam is being used for political ends he cannot yet understand. There were three reasons why Biden opened our borders by releasing millions and violating multiple laws: ideology, electoral math and extortion.

The ideology was that of far-Left globalism, which does not believe in nation states. In my book, The Ten Woke Commandments You Must Not Obey, the first of the Left’s strictures is, “You Shall Have No Borders.” Take away an individual’s right to protect and defend his goods and land, and you eliminate private property. That is socialism’s goal. Take away a country’s right to control who comes in and who stays, and you eliminate nations, which happens to be socialism’s other goal.

The electoral math is simple—for now, illegal immigrants (and other non-citizens) are counted in the census for congressional apportionment. That means more congressional seats, and thus Electoral College votes. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the presence of illegal immigrants and their American-born children will result in “a net gain for Democratic-leaning states of four seats.”

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Extortion refers to the Biden plan to bring in so many aliens that no succeeding administration could ever remove them. Letting an illegal alien in by parole or catch-and-release takes a few hours and little paperwork. Deporting them, when they inevitably claim asylum, fail to attend their hearings or refuse to obey valid deportation orders, takes years. No matter who is in power, an illegal alien once in the United States has a better than even chance of remaining here for life, unless they commit a serious crime (in this case they will often still stay).

Adding to the difficulty of removing illegal immigrants through the “due process” activists pretend isn’t happening are activist judges who are arrogating powers and making decisions out of ideology as opposed to law. Even if they are eventually overruled by higher courts, these decisions buy time for illegal aliens, muddy the waters for the public about what the law actually says and inject the judiciary into both executive and legislative prerogative.

The Ramos case perfectly sums up how these three ideas come together to grease the wheels of mass migration and throw sand in the works of mass deportation.

In Dec 2024, the tail-end of the open Biden border—during which at least 150,000 aliens were released into the country every month—the Ramos family from Ecuador arrived at the southern border. They surrendered to DHS agents and were released into the country, probably with a Notice to Appear in immigration court months or years later. They were then sent to Minneapolis, likely via taxpayer-funded bus or plane tickets. There, the Ramos children enroled in free public schools, thanks to a Supreme Court case.

On Jan 20, amidst the daily demonstrations in Minneapolis, Immigration and Customs Enforcement went to arrest Adrian Conejo Arias to carry out his immigration process. His lawyer claims Arias has a pending asylum case. That means Arias should have been detained at the border until his case concluded. But under Biden, nearly all putative asylum claimants were released, giving them years to live and work in the U.S., whatever the merits of their case.

Arias’s son, Liam Conejo Ramos, was left alone when his father ran away from ICE. (Why he ran, if family members “were following all the established protocols,” according to his lawyer, is unclear). DHS agents were not going to abandon the little boy. They reportedly knocked at the door of the family’s house to ask Liam’s mother if she would take him. She would not.

This left agents with the choice of handing Liam over to strangers or allowing him to stay with his father. They permitted him the more humane option, so once they found Arias, he and Liam were taken to Dilley Detention Center in Texas.

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Why would Liam’s father take his son into detention instead of back home to his mother? He surely knew that taking his son would improve his chance of release from detention. That’s the same reason so many illegal border crossers bring children—often not their own—with them.

Last week, district court judge Fred Biery, a Clinton appointee, ordered Arias and Liam released. In a case calling for cold clarity and rigid interpretation of the law, Biery “weaponized wit,” according to the New York Times, by calling DHS deportation efforts “ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented,” quoting the Declaration of Independence (which is all well and good but not part of U.S. law), and claiming that there was no due process (without explaining what was missed). Biery tops it off by including a photo of Liam Ramos under his signature. Biery’s political views are so obvious that no one would imagine him capable of objectivity in an immigration case.

Now back in Minneapolis, the Arias-Ramos family await the results of their asylum case. According to Arias’s brother Luis, “The economic situation, insecurity and unstable employment conditions in Ecuador led them to leave “for a good life.”

That means their asylum claim has no merit under U.S. law. The family are economic migrants. So let’s say their case is denied—in several years. What are the chances of them being deported? Low in a Trump administration—almost zero under the next Democratic president, if their platform hasn’t changed since Biden and Harris.

That’s the outcome the globalists, currently spearheaded by well-funded, organized activists in cities like Minneapolis, want. A wide-open barn door into the United States, and a tiny slit to get people out. That’s the game in which Liam has become a pawn.