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A day after he was released from the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez — the local father who spent six months in detention after being arrested outside his daughter’s Lincoln Heights school — appeared outside the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s Temple Street headquarters on Thursday to speak in support of a bill that would designate California as a “sanctuary state.”

Kareen Wynter reports for the KTLA 5 News at 3 on Aug. 31, 2017.