JAY TOKASZ

News Staff Reporter

A federal judge in Buff alo has ordered the release of a 19-year-old Venezuelan man who was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following an immigration court hearing in May about his asylum request.

Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo of the U.S District Court, Western District of New York, ruled that federal authorities must release Oliver Eloy Mata Velasquez from the Buff alo Federal Immigration Detention Center while his lawsuit is being considered.

"While it's an enormous relief that Oliver can return to his home in Buff alo, ICE should have never detained him in the first place," said Amy Belsher, director of Immigrants' Rights Litigation at the New York Civil Liberties Union, in a news release. "As the Court rightly found, Oli

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