A judge has ordered that a breast-feeding mom be released after three weeks in ICE custody, stating that the Trump administration had violated its Biden-era policy that states nursing mothers will not be detained.

Antonia Aguilar Maldonado, 26, was arrested by federal agents on July 17. She came to the United States from El Salvador as a teenager and has no criminal history and has been seeking asylum in Minnesota.

Hannah Brown, one of her attorneys, told the court Tuesday that her client is experiencing emotional distress while separated from her two children, who are U.S. citizens, including her youngest whom she is breastfeeding.

Maldonado’s toddler is “allergic to other forms of milk, and so unfortunately, this baby has been without his mother’s milk now for 26 days, and she wants

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