Overview
- Ricardo Hernández-Navarrete was freed Tuesday after an immigration bond hearing and is traveling back to Chicago to try to attend his Mather High School graduation this week.
- He and his mother, Liliana Navarrete, were detained in mid‑March during what they said was a routine asylum check at a federal immigration office.
- Liliana was released last week when a federal judge in Kentucky issued writs of habeas corpus freeing her and 16 others from the same detention network.
- Supporters, lawyers and classmates organized rallies, media outreach and fundraising while the pair were detained, and Ricardo reported harsh conditions including crowded cells and spells of solitary confinement.
- Their underlying asylum case remains active with future immigration court dates and lawyers say they will press legal arguments that recent federal rulings broaden bond access for detainees in the Kentucky detention system.