The governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, went to social networks on Sunday night to demand answers after ICE agents arrested a high school student who was going to the practice of volleyball during the weekend.
The student, Marcelo Gomes, 18, is Junior in Milford High School in Milford, Massachusetts.
In its publication, Healey says that she is “disturbed and outraged” and that he wants responses immediately explaining why the student was carried out under the custody of the application of immigration.
“I am demanding that ICE provide immediate information about why it was arrested, where it is and how its due process is being protected,”
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People walked to the graduation ceremony of Milford High School on June 1, 2025. On Saturday several ice arrests were made in Milford, including a student of Milford High who was arrested in his way to the practice of volleyball. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
In the publication, he blames Trump's administrator for what she describes as an attempt to create fear.
“The Trump administration continues to create fear in our communities, and is doing us all less safe,” says his position.
In his statement, Healey states that the student was arrested on Saturday without prior notice or subsequent explanation provided to state officials.
“Once again, local officials and the application of the law have remained in the dark without notices and without answers to their questions,” he said.
The community met to protest outside Milford on Sunday. Hundreds demanded that Gomes be released and that ice stop harassing the members of their community.
The graduates of Milford High School protest outside the Milford City Council one day after Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, out of ICE on his way to the practice of volleyball. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
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The American representative Jake Auchincloss, a Democrat who represents Milford in Congress, attended the protest and took note of X that Gomes was “inscribed in honors classes, a training assistant for female volleyball [and] Player for male volleyball and member of the school band. ”
“This administration has its public security priorities vice versa. It decreases to the cops of COP of January 6, but it stops the volleyball players of the high school. It makes the background verifications of the most difficult weapons components while pressing the tax exits to buy silencers for guns. This reckless behavior does not make Milford residents more soft support of the law. [and] Order, “he wrote.
The American representative Jake Auchincloss, a Democrat who represents Milford in Congress, attended the protest and took note of X that Gomes was “inscribed in honors classes, a training assistant for female volleyball [and] Player for male volleyball and member of the school band. ” (Jake Auchincloss representative in X)
The Superintendent of the Milford School District, Kevin McIntyre, says that Gomes arrest is one of the many apprehensions in the community of southern Massachusetts.
McIntyre says that the district cannot assume any role in the application of immigration, but “will support all our students and families, including those who are immigrants to the United States.”
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“They are community members, students in our classrooms, athletes who compete on behalf of Milford, musicians, artists, friends and neighbors. We will do everything that is in our power to support our students and families during these difficult times,” he said in his statement.
Sunday morning was the graduation of Milford High School and Healey says that a day of celebration has now fogged.
“My heart is with the Milford community so it was supposed to be a celebration graduation day,” he said.
