LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - It’s a race against the clock to free a St. Johns man who has been in custody for three months.

Right now, his family has no idea where he is.

Lue Yang is a husband and father of six. He was taken into ICE custody in July as he arrived to work in Lansing.

He’s a Hmong immigrant who came to the U.S. in the 1970s as a child refugee.

Yang previously got into legal trouble as a minor. When he was 17, he pled guilty to breaking and entering. He spent 10 months in jail before turning his life around.

He began nonprofit the Hmong Family Association of Lansing and became a leader in the community.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer pardoned Yang on Wednesday.

“Yesterday, I granted a pardon for Lue Yang, a devoted family man and respected leader in Michigan’s Hmong community,”

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