CHICAGO (WLS) -- A father who has been detained while his daughter fights cancer is due in court Thursday.

Attorneys for Ruben Torres Maldonado are expected to speak after the hearing.

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The father of two U.S. citizen children was detained by ICE this past weekend as his daughter battles cancer.

Local leaders and attorneys called for Torres Maldonado to be released - to care for his 16-year-old daughter, Ophelia, who is in treatment for a rare and aggressive form of metastatic cancer.

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They claim Torres Maldonado has been in the United States since 2003.

But that all came crashing down Saturday, when he was arrested at a Niles Hom

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