GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Lue Yang left a northern Michigan detention center on Wednesday morning, Dec. 3, thinking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was transferring him to another facility.

But when he saw signs for Grand Rapids, he started to get excited.

“My hopes were real high that today was the day that I was going to be released to my family,” he said.

Yang, 47, from St. Johns, wearing the same grey sweatshirt, blue t-shirt and white undershirt that he was detained in this summer, was reunited with his family after spending nearly five months in immigration detention.

He gave them big hugs outside the ICE office in downtown Grand Rapids after a surprise release.

“I’m just so happy,” said Ann Vue, 43, his wife. “I can’t even find the right words that my husband is going t

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