After detaining her for nearly a month, immigration officials released a young mother from custody on Wednesday after a federal judge ordered them to do so.

Antonia Aguilar Maldonado came to the U.S. in 2016 without legal status as a 17-year-old unaccompanied minor. She now has two young U.S. citizen children.

On July 17, she was headed to her job as a self-employed painter when Homeland Security investigators stopped her and her husband in St. Paul.

Both were detained, but sent to different facilities. The mother was taken to the Kandiyohi County Jail in Willmar.

The federal judge's ruling to release her restores a prior immigration court decision granting her a $10,000 bond, an amount her church community has been raising to help get her out.

Her attorneys, Hannah Brown and Gloria C

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