After detaining her for nearly a month, immigration officials released a young Lake Elmo mother from custody on Wednesday after a federal judge ordered them to do so. Antonia Aguilar Maldonado

Antonia Aguilar Maldonado, who came to the U.S. in 2016 without legal status as a 17-year-old unaccompanied minor, was held in Kandiyohi County Jail in Willmar

In the court's view, the irreparable harm to separating a nursing mother and her child is self-evident,’ judge says