CHICAGO, Ill. (NBC CHICAGO) — ‘Independence Day’ will be any time before Friday for hundreds of Chicago and Midwestern immigrants who were arrested and detained by U.S. law enforcement.

A release order was issued Wednesday morning from District Judge Jeff Cummings, and came from a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) after Operation Midway Blitz resulted in the arrests of thousands of allegedly undocumented immigrants.

In the ruling, Cummings ordered at least 615 people to be released by Friday, November 14.

The government has claimed it’s been arresting the “worst of the worst” criminals, however the NBC 5 Investigates team has reported that 85% of arrestees have no criminal convictions.

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