Immigration authorities cut Cuban Marielito's release short

"We're just still waiting and trying to figure out what's going on and how to fight, " Jasmine told the Denver Post.

Rene Lima-Marin leaves Cuba as a toddler with his parents in what would become known as the Mariel boat lift after Fidel Castro announced the country would stop trying to prevent unauthorized departures.

She told CBS that Lima-Marin came to the United States from Cuba when he was 1 year old.

He remained on the ICE hold as of Wednesday evening, and the Denver Post reports that immigration authorities indicated that he could be deported. His wife, Jasmine, said Lima-Marin checked in with immigration officials every few months after he was mistakenly r. The court is required to send the order terminating the sentencing to the Department of Correction prior to his release.

Lima-Marin's attorney Kimberly Diego says Lima-Marin came to the USA from Cuba at the age of 2 during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. He was sent back to prison in 2014 when the mistake was discovered. He was released, improperly, in 2008 according to CNN.

Williams did not respond to a call for comment, nor did Judge Carlos Samour, Jr. of the 18th Judicial District, who ordered Lima-Marin's release Tuesday.

In the six years he was free, he found a job, got married, started a family, and purchased a home, said his attorney Kimberly Diego. "Everyone is completely devastated", Diego said. "Not all people who are rehabilitated behave that way".

As it turns out, Lima-Martin is not a legal US citizen. According to Nolo, when sentences run consecutively, it means that the defendant must serve the sentence for one crime before they can begin serving the sentence for another crime.

In the years he was free, Lima-Marin reset his life. The attorney advised him to forgo the appeal and instead wait to be released on parole in 2008.

FILE - In this May 7, 2014 file photo, Rene Lima-Marin sits for an interview with The Associated Press about the circumstances of his sentencing and incarceration, in a meeting room inside Kit Carson Correctional Center, a privately operated prison in Burlington, Colo.

On Tuesday, Samour ordered the Colorado Department of Corrections to release Lima-Marin, who was convicted on multiple counts of robbery, kidnapping and burglary for robbing two video stores in 1998 when he was 19 years old.

Lima-Marin seized the opportunity.

The government acted with "conscience-shocking" indifference in re-incarcerating him in 2014, the judge said.

During those 8 years of freedom Lima-Marin never had run-ins with ICE. Because the court finds that Lima-Marin is being unlawfully detained, he is ordered released.

"He is in trouble now because of the result of the normalization process which is opening up the possibility, but legally there is no agreement between the two countries to exchange criminals, so he might be in limbo", Arcos said.

Two Colorado lawmakers signed a letter asking Gov. John Hickenlooper to pardon Lima-Marin in order to remove the legal basis for ICE to detain him.

"His case was unique in that sense", she said.