A smiling Lima-Marin walked out of an immigration detention center in suburban Denver on Monday after winning his deportation case. A judge in October ordered that deportation proceedings against Lima-Marin end and that he be released, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security appealed that decision. Immigration authorities detained him instead, citing a deportation order tied to his conviction. An immigration judge in Denver overturned the deportation order in July, but he remained in immigration detention while lawyers argued over his case. Immigration authorities held him for 180 days after his 2008 parole, but Cuba at the time wasn't accepting deportees who had arrived during the Mariel boatlift.

Source: ABC News March 26, 2018 23:12 UTC