Family in tears as beloved NJ chef freed from ICE detention Dan Alexander Published: November 19, 2025 Ruperto Marquez is released from ICE's Delaney Hall detention faclity in Newark Nov. 19, 2025 (ABC 7 Eyewitness News)

✅Beloved Monmouth County chef released after days of bureaucratic delays

✅Mayor Lori Hohenleitner and former council member traveled to Newark to pay his bond

✅A welcome home rally is planned for Saturday

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS — After several days of bureaucratic delays, a Monmouth County chef has finally returned home.

Ruperto Vicens Marquez was released by a judge from the for-profit Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark on Thursday afternoon during a bond hearing. After a 24-hour period for ICE to appeal the decision had passed, his bond could not

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