A pizza delivery man held by ICE is released by a judge

million. Villavicencio was arrested while delivering food from a Queens brick oven pizzeria to an army base in Fort Hamilton. He presented a city ID card, known as IDNYC, that Mr. Villavicencio has already used at the base. This time, she was not accepted

A military police officer on duty said that Mr. Villavicencio needed a driver's license, which he did not have. not; the officer then carried out a background check – which Mr Villavicencio said he did not accept – which revealed an open expulsion order from 2010.

Despite the order, Mr. Villavicencio, originally from Ecuador, had not left the country, and in 2013, he married Sandra Chica, a naturalized citizen. Through his sponsorship, Mr. Villavicencio applied for permanent residence. But it was only Tuesday morning that his lawyers were given a date for an interview: August 21st.

Earlier this month, a judge had temporarily blocked the expulsion of Mr. Villavicencio

. the first row of the gallery while the couple's two daughters, aged 3 and 4, were playing with rainbow babies and princess figures. Mr. Villavicencio was not in the Manhattan hearing room; he was detained at the Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearny, N.J.

For this reason, the government is pleading for a change of location in New Jersey. The lawyers for Mr. Villavicencio, Debevoise & Plimpton and Legal Aid, wanted to keep the case in New York, since it was originally filed in the Southern District of Manhattan and that its maintenance in this jurisdiction would offer the quickest resolution

. Crotty J.'s hearing brought out a point that resonated again when he made his decision six hours later. "The powerful do what they want," he said, "and the poor suffer what they have to do."