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An athlete, a musician, an exceptional high school student with an
infectious smile.
This is how community members in Milford, Massachusetts, described Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, an 18-year-old high school junior who was arrested by immigration authorities and sent to a detention center this weekend.
Gomes Da Silva was driving his father's car on his way to volleyball
practice with some of his teammates Saturday morning when immigration authorities stopped him.
Immigration authorities made the traffic stop because they were looking
for Gomes Da Silva�s father, who is unlawfully present in the country, according to Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
After learning Gomes Da Silva was also unlawfully present in the U.S., ICE officers took him into custody, Lyons said Monday at a news conference.
Gomes Da Silva was born in Brazil but has attended Milford Public Schools
since he was 6 years old, friends said.
Though �he was not the target of the investigation,� he was arrested
during a monthlong immigration enforcement operation in Massachusetts that
has resulted in the arrests of nearly 1,500 immigrants, Boston's ICE Field Officer Patricia H. Hyde said at the news conference.
"When we go out into the community and we find others who are unlawfully
here, we are going to arrest them," Hyde said. "We�ve been completely transparent with that.�
An ICE spokesperson told NBC News in an email statement Monday afternoon
that Gomes Da Silva "remains in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.�
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/ice-arrest-high-school-milford- massachusetts-immigration-rcna210324
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