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NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — A New York City Council employee who was detained by ICE in January has been released from custody, NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin announced on Saturday.
Rafael Rubio was released from Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on June 19, five months after he was detained at a routine asylum interview on Long Island on Jan. 12, Menin said.
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The data analyst for the City Council had Temporary Protected Status as a citizen of Venezuela, which was good through October, according to Menin. A judge previously ordered Rubio to be deported in March after the Trump administration ended TPS protections for Venezuelans last year, and based on not having a required signature on his asylum application…