Following widespread demands for his release, a Mexican immigrant whose teenage daughter is battling a rare form of cancer was ordered released on bond from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Thursday.

Ruben Torres Maldonado, who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 23 years and has only traffic violations on his record, was detained by ICE and held for weeks at the suburban Broadview processing facility and an Indiana jail, according to his attorneys. At a bond hearing Thursday , Immigration Judge Eva Saltzman ruled that Maldonado poses no threat to the community and ordered him released on a $2,000 bond, which his family paid.

Maldonado’s 16-year-old daughter Ofelia Giselle Torres Hidalgo was diagnosed with metastatic alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer, in D

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