Mamadou Mouctar Diallo, the Brooklyn transfer student whose federal immigration arrest sparked outrage and protest over the summer, has been granted asylum and released from detention, according to his lawyers.

Mouctar, a 20-year-old student at Brooklyn Frontiers High School from Guinea, was detained in August during a routine immigration check-in at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan.

Shortly after his arrest, dozens of members of the City Council, teachers and advocates descended on the steps of the New York City Education Department headquarters to call for his immediate release. Members of New York’s Democratic congressional delegation wrote an open letter to President Trump’s administration on Mouctar’s case and a handful of others , while Mayor Adams’ administration filed a

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