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ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have lagged. Over the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded facilities lacking food and medicine.
Marcelo Gomes da Silva, the 18-year-old Milford, Massachusetts, teen who was arrested last weekend while on his way to volleyball practice, spoke to the media shortly after being released on bail from an immigration facility in Burlington on June 5.
Marcelo Gomes, the Milford, Massachusetts teenager detained by ICE last weekend, was granted bond after his first deportation hearing Thursday afternoon.
An immigration judge has granted bond to a Massachusetts high school student arrested on his way to volleyball practice is scheduled to appear before an immigration judge.
The Trump administration is continuing its crackdown on immigration through enforcement raids, arrests and deportations. That has included some teenagers being taken into custody by immigration officials.
ICE also denied allegations that detainees were not provided drinkable water and air conditioning turned off as form of retaliation.
Instead of performing with the Milford High School band at Sunday's graduation, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva was detained by immigration officials.
A Milford teenager being detained by ICE is meeting with a lawyer as a judge denied a motion from the government to transfer him to Rhode Island.