Arrested 'Dreamer' Daniel Ramirez Medina released

An illegal immigrant who was arrested by immigration officials despite being under the protection of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals will be released, an immigration judge in Washington state ruled Tuesday, but deportation proceedings will continue against him.

Daniel Ramirez Medina, 24, was held in immigration detention for a month and a half after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested him on Feb. 10 in Seattle, saying he admitted to having connections to gangs. Ramirez, the father of a three-year-old U.S. citizen, denied any current connections, and “stated ‘no, not no more,'” when asked about them, a U.S. District Court document states.