A day care teacher was released from federal immigration custody just hours after a federal judge ruled her arrest last week “unlawful.”

Diana Santillana Galeano was released Wednesday night from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Clay County, Indiana, her attorney Charlie Wysong announced Thursday. Only hours earlier, U.S. District Judge Jeremy C. Daniel ordered the government hold a bond hearing for Santillana Galeano within the next week, answering Wysong’s habeas petition.

“I am so grateful to everyone who has advocated on my behalf, and on behalf of the countless others who have experienced similar trauma over recent months in the Chicago area,” Santillana Galeano said in a statement. “I love our community and the children I teach, and I can’t wait to s

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