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Pablo Villavicencio returned home early Wednesday morning after a Manhattan federal judge ordered him released from immigration detention late Tuesday. Villavicencio's case became a cause célèbre among immigration activists after he was detained delivering a pizza at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn in June. Credit: Howard Schnapp; Newsday / Chau Lam