A federal magistrate judge insisted Thursday that a man caught up in President Donald Trump’s deportation sweep in Elgin this week poses “no danger to the community that I see … whatsoever” as she considered whether to keep him behind bars.

Ultimately, U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling ordered the release of Carlos Augusto Gonzalez-Leon after arranging certain conditions to help court officials keep an eye on him. But she also suggested she’d been given limited information about his past.

The detention hearing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse offered a rare glimpse into the background and circumstances of a man caught up in the Homeland Security deportation campaigns aimed at Chicago, known as “Operation Midway Blitz” and “Operation At Large.”

Gonzalez-Leon was one of five arr

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