An Alamo Heights family detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will head home after a federal judge ordered their release from the South Texas Family Residential Center.

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia on Wednesday ordered the federal government to release Maria Betania Uzcategui Castillo, her 11-year-old stepson Victor Labrador and her 8-year-old stepdaughter Victoria "Monserrat" Labrador no later than 9:30 a.m. Thursday, the Express-News reports.

Sign up Castillo and her stepchildren were detained by ICE agents outside their home while waiting for the school bus on April 27.