A federal judge Monday ordered a Bronx 11th-grader to be immediately released from ICE custody as the Trump administration continues its alleged “Orwellian” bid to try to deport the kid.
District Judge Cathy Seibel said at the hearing in White Plains that 16-year-old Joel Camas’ legal team successfully showed his “immediate release is necessary.
“We are talking about a minor who will suffer irreparable harm by being removed from the school part way through the year,” Seibel said.
The obviously irked judge ripped the legal posture of the office of US Attorney for the Southern District Jay Clayton as “Orwellian or Kafkaesque.”
“Your clients are dead-set on pursuing this particular case?” she asked Assistant US Attorney Rachel Kroll, who is repping Clayton’s office. “They don’t see an

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