WILLMAR, Minn. — Members of Indivisible Kandiyohi County stood outside the Kandiyohi County Jail in Willmar as a show of support Tuesday for a Minnesota woman who has been behind bars since her arrest by federal agents more than two weeks ago. She is expected to be released Wednesday after a judge ruled in her favor.

Antonia Aguilar Maldonado, 25, of Lake Elmo, was arrested July 17 by Homeland Security Investigations, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, as she was on her way to work as a self-employed painter, according to reporting by MPR News.

Aguilar Maldonado has no criminal history and an active asylum case in the immigration court system, her attorneys told MPR.

According to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Online Detainee Locator System, she remained in c

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