CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cincinnati hospital chaplain walked out of jail on Friday after the government dropped a controversial immigration case that was set for trial next week.

Ayman Soliman was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in July after his asylum status, which he held since 2018, was revoked.

Soliman’s attorney, Rob Ratliff, said attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security dropped Soliman’s immigration case on Friday and that he expects Soliman’s asylum status to be reinstated in the next few days. That permits Soliman to legally live and work in the U.S.

The Muslim Legal Defense Fund of America, which had also represented Soliman, called his release “miraculous.”

“He can now return to the community he serves as an interfaith Imam who stood by him throughou

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