Omar Jamal, a Somali community advocate and Ramsey County sheriff civilian officer, has been released from federal custody about a month after he was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Jamal, 52, was released from the Freeborn County jail in Albert Lea after federal officials agreed to restore “the prior legal status quo” and “implicitly acknowledging that there is no current legal basis for his removal from the United States,” his attorneys Abdiqani Jabane and Nico Ratkowski said Tuesday in a statement, which didn’t give a date he was set free.

Jamal was picked up by ICE agents on Aug. 29 in Minneapolis, 20 years after he was convicted in federal court in Tennessee on immigration fraud and sentenced to a year of probation.

Jamal’s attorneys filed a federal lawsuit ag

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