Trump administration The authorities sparked a huge demonstration on Sunday in a suburbs of Boston after the immigration agents arrested a high school student on the road to volleyball training while they were looking for his father.
The high school in question, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, 18, entered the United States with a student visa, according to a trial filed on his behalf after his arrest. Although his status as a student visa has escaped, he is eligible and intends to request asylum.
Nevertheless, the American immigration head and the application of customs (ICE) defended the actions of his agency on Monday, claiming that the adolescent in question was “in this country illegally and that we will not move away from anyone”.
Gomes was arrested on Saturday in Milford, Massachusettswhere he lives.
The interim director of the ICE, Todd Lyons, and Patricia Hyde – who directs the agency’s application and withdrawal operations in Boston – recognized Gomes was not the target of the immigration The investigation which led to his arrest and that the authorities were looking instead of his father, who remains in freedom.
But the student of the Milford high school had led his father’s vehicle when he was arrested following a traffic stop, said Lyons. Lyon said that when the authorities illegally meet someone in the country, “we will take measures on this subject”.
“We are doing the work that ice should have done from the start,” he said. “We apply all the laws on immigration.”
The state democratic governor Maura Healey said that she was “disturbed and native” by the arrest of Gomes. And hundreds joined Milford on Sunday to protest against the detention of Gomes.
A federal judge returned on Sunday an emergency order preventing the authorities from transferring Gomes out of the Massachusetts for at least 72 hours in response to his trial by arguing that he had been illegally held.
Reuters contributed to this report
