A Liberian national who was arrested by federal immigration officers in Minnesota last weekend after they used a battering ram to break down his door was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody Friday for the second time in less than 24 hours, according to his attorney, who spoke with The Associated Press. A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of 37-year-old Garrison Gibson, finding that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when officers forcibly entered his home “without his consent and without a judicial warrant.” Gibson’s attorney, Marc Prokosch, told the AP his client was initially freed pursuant to the order but arrested again Friday during a routine immigration appointment. He was reportedly released again hours later. Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLauglin slammed the judge in a statement as “yet another activist judges trying to obstruct the American people’s mandate to remove criminal illegal aliens from American communities.” “Thanks to an activist judge’s ruling this criminal illegal alien is loose on Minnesota’s streets,” McLaughlin said, adding that Gibson had a “lengthy rap sheet,” including robbery, drug possession, weapons, and theft charges, and that he had been on a final order of removal since 2023. That narrative is disputed by court documents, which noted that Gibson had a removal order from the U.S. in 2009 because of a drug conviction that was later dismissed and has no current criminal history. Gibson had a removal order from the U.S. in 2009 because of a drug conviction that was later dismissed and has no criminal history, according to court documents. He was issued an order of supervision in 2021, allowing him to remain in the U.S. legally on the condition that he wore an ankle monitor and appeared for regular check-ins with ICE. The judge’s order stated that Gibson had complied with those conditions over the past four years and had met with immigration authorities in December, just weeks before his initial arrest. Prokosch argued in a lawsuit that Gibson’s rearrest was unlawful because he had not been notified that the supervision order was revoked. An order of supervision can be revoked at any time, either for violating conditions or changed circumstances, but federal law requires that ICE notify the noncitizen of “the reasons for revocation of his or her release” and allow them to respond in an informal interview. The judge, Jeffrey M. Bryan, found that ICE failed to comply with those requirements in Gibson’s case. “There is nothing in the record to suggest changed circumstances or that he will be removed in the reasonably foreseeable future, nor that ICE made any reasoned determination to revoke his supervised release,” Bryan wrote in the nine-page order. Gibson’s arrest came amid a weeks-long immigration crackdown in Minnesota, dubbed “Operation Metro Surge,” which the Trump administration said led to the arrest of the “worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens” in the state. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the administration Friday, accusing federal officers of conducting illegal stops through racial profiling. Updated at 2:46 p.m. EST Jan. 17 Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. regular