Ruperto Vicens Marquez, the restaurant owner with a work visa who was detained by ICE last month , was released from custody on Tuesday night.

Marquez was released from Newark’s Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center at 6 p.m., Kerry Kennedy, a member of the American Friends Service Committee social justice group, told NJ Advance Media. By 7 p.m., he was spending time with his family at his home in Middletown.

Vicens Marquez has been held at the detention center since Oct. 19, the day ICE agents stopped him in a car with two other men while he was on his way to work. The father of three, who lives in the Belford section of Middletown with his wife and three children, spent about a month at Delaney Hall awaiting a hearing.

Vicens Marquez, who was born in Mexico, co-owns Emilio’s Kitchen wit

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