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Judge denies ICE request to transfer detained Mass. student
A federal judge has denied Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s request to transfer a detained Milford, Massachusetts, high school student to a different facility. According to court documents, ICE requested to move Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, to a facility in Rhode Island. An immigration hearing regarding Gomes da Silva’s case is scheduled for immigration court […]
A federal judge has denied Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s request to transfer a detained Milford, Massachusetts, high school student to a different facility. According to court documents, ICE requested to move Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, to a facility in Rhode Island. An immigration hearing regarding Gomes da Silva’s case is scheduled for immigration court on Thursday in Chelmsford.The Milford High School junior was detained by ICE agents this weekend while he was on his way to volleyball practice. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said Monday that members of law enforcement were looking for Gomes da Silva’s father during the initial traffic stop.His family released a video Wednesday, pleading for him to be released by ICE. “Hello, ICE. My name is Joao Paulo, Marcelo’s father. I miss my son. I love you, my son. We need Marcelo back home. It’s not a family without him. We love America. Please bring my son back,” he said.Gomes da Silva is currently being held at a facility in Burlington. His attorney, Robin Nice, told WCVB that the 18-year-old is sleeping on a cement floor and sharing one open toilet with about 40 others at the facility.”He said it’s extremely hot. He has a sore throat. He sounded really stuffed up and miserable,” Nice said. “We’re also worried because he told me for the first time yesterday he thinks he had a concussion a week prior from a volleyball game. In the last few days, his head has really started throbbing and the vision in his left eye at the top is going black.” Nice is cautiously optimistic that a judge will set bond during Thursday’s hearing. Milford police chief Robert Tusino told NewsCenter 5 that Gomes da Silva should never have been arrested in the first place.”I don’t agree with the broad sword of makes it safer, makes it better, it doesn’t,” Tusino said. “I don’t agree with ‘We can do nothing.’ It’s two separate, simple issues. Criminals, and noncriminals, it’s that simple.”
A federal judge has denied Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s request to transfer a detained Milford, Massachusetts, high school student to a different facility.
According to court documents, ICE requested to move Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, to a facility in Rhode Island.
An immigration hearing regarding Gomes da Silva’s case is scheduled for immigration court on Thursday in Chelmsford.
The Milford High School junior was detained by ICE agents this weekend while he was on his way to volleyball practice.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said Monday that members of law enforcement were looking for Gomes da Silva’s father during the initial traffic stop.
His family released a video Wednesday, pleading for him to be released by ICE.
“Hello, ICE. My name is Joao Paulo, Marcelo’s father. I miss my son. I love you, my son. We need Marcelo back home. It’s not a family without him. We love America. Please bring my son back,” he said.
Gomes da Silva is currently being held at a facility in Burlington. His attorney, Robin Nice, told WCVB that the 18-year-old is sleeping on a cement floor and sharing one open toilet with about 40 others at the facility.
“He said it’s extremely hot. He has a sore throat. He sounded really stuffed up and miserable,” Nice said. “We’re also worried because he told me for the first time yesterday he thinks he had a concussion a week prior from a volleyball game. In the last few days, his head has really started throbbing and the vision in his left eye at the top is going black.”
Nice is cautiously optimistic that a judge will set bond during Thursday’s hearing.
Milford police chief Robert Tusino told NewsCenter 5 that Gomes da Silva should never have been arrested in the first place.
“I don’t agree with the broad sword of makes it safer, makes it better, it doesn’t,” Tusino said. “I don’t agree with ‘We can do nothing.’ It’s two separate, simple issues. Criminals, and noncriminals, it’s that simple.”