U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez and other Illinois elected officials and community leaders called on the Department of Homeland Security to release an immigrant currently in federal custody whose daughter is sick with Stage 4 cancer .

Ramirez asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release Ruben Torres Maldonado, a Portage Park man detained by federal immigration agents Saturday while his 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment.

“They should be together right now but instead Ruben became another person taken by this rogue agency,” Ramirez said.

An attorney for Torres is currently petitioning in federal court for his release. Holding Torres in custody is “not making anyone safer,” Ramirez said.

In a statement Tuesday night, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary

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