Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released a U.S. Navy sailor’s father from detention after the service member publicly shared his distress while aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is set to dock next week in Thailand after a record-breaking deployment.
The news was shared by Navy airman Joshua Aviles on Facebook Tuesday. He said that his father, Luis Manuel Aviles Roa, a handyman and Nicaraguan national living in Florida, had been “released back to our family.”
His return comes days after Joshua Aviles and other relatives went public with Aviles Roa’s case, saying he had a Social Security number, a driver’s license, a work permit and was in the process of obtaining a green card.