He has been released: https://www.salon.com/2025/04/17/us-born-citizen-was-held-by...

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Previous discussions here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43721170) and here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722680).

Both unfortunately flagged.

I do often wonder how outsourcing such work to private contractor companies, who then suddenly have power over government branches, is supposed to work out.

Excerpts:

“The judge, the prosecutor, the sheriff and the jail are basically all throwing their hands up and saying, ‘ICE told us to hold him, so we’re going to keep holding him,’ even though no one disagrees with the fact that he’s a citizen. So they’re right now unlawfully holding a US citizen. They’ve dismissed the underlying criminal charges, so the only reason they’re holding him is because ICE sent a piece of paper over that says, ‘Please hold this person for us. We’ll come pick him up later,’” Greer said.