Overview
- Immigration Judge Jenny Beverly granted a $2,000 bond after finding he posed neither a public safety threat nor a significant flight risk.
- Marcelo Gomes da Silva was stopped on his way to volleyball practice when agents targeting his father detained him and held him in a facility where he slept on a cement floor.
- Milford High students and community members organized a walkout and rallied at town hall and the courthouse to call for his release.
- U.S. District Judge George O’Toole previously barred ICE from transferring him out of Massachusetts without at least 48 hours’ notice to the court.
- The 18-year-old Brazilian national, whose student visa has lapsed, lived in the U.S. since childhood and now returns home as his immigration case proceeds.