On Tuesday night, Ward Sakeik, 22, walked out of the Prairieland Detention Center — an ICE facility located less than an hour’s drive south from her Arlington home — and into the embrace of her husband, 28-year-old Taahir Shaikh.

A North Texas woman, a "stateless Palestinian," was released from ICE detention after nearly five months, sparking debate about the reasons for her detainment and sudden freedom.

Ward Sakeik, an Arlington resident of Palestinian descent, had been in Texas immigration detention centers for 140 days after ICE agents detained her as she and her husband returned from their honeymoon to the U.