Overview

• Advocates, elected officials and classmates assembled on August 14 at Tweed Courthouse to press for Diallo’s immediate freedom
• Mamadou Mouctar Diallo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn Frontiers High School transfer student and Guinean-American asylum seeker with no family in New York
• He was taken into ICE custody after a routine appearance at Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan on August 4 and is reportedly being fast-tracked through the detention system
• Department of Education Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos activated Project Open Arms to assist Diallo’s family with legal support and assured residents that schools remain safe
• City Councilmembers Lincoln Restler and Rita Joseph decried the detention as an unacceptable escalation and urged stronger protections for migrant students during immigration proceedings