A Kennett, Missouri, woman whose detainment by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials made national headlines was released Wednesday afternoon.

Carol Mayorga, whose legal name is Ming Li Hui, had been in ICE custody since late April, when she was detained during what she thought was a routine meeting with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office.

During that meeting, ICE officers shackled the mother of three and transported her via van to Phelps County Jail in Rolla, Missouri, and eventually, over a month later, to Greene County Jail in Springfield, Missouri.

But on Wednesday at around 4:30 p.m., jail officials walked Mayorga out of the jail, according to her attorney, Raymond Bolourtchi. He said Mayorga would return to Kennett that evening.

Bolourtchi said a

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