A Manhattan federal judge has ordered the immediate release of a gay Jamaican man who said immigration authorities violated his rights by detaining him during a routine check-in earlier this month.

The asylum-seeker, 40-year-old Rickardo Anthony Kelly, fled Jamaica in 2021 after he was shot at 10 times during what he described as an anti-gay attack, according to court documents.

Kelly's case is part of the Trump administration's strategy to detain undocumented people for expedited removal around their immigration court hearings and check-ins, including at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan . The building is currently being used as a temporary immigration detention site.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and other state officials this week called for the return of a young girl and her mother who

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