Healey outraged as ICE detains Massachusetts teen heading to volleyball follow

[ad_1] Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey took to social media Sunday night to demand solutions after ICE brokers arrested a high school scholar heading to volleyball follow over the weekend.

The coed, 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes, is a junior at Milford Excessive College in Milford, Massachusetts.

In her publish, Healey says she is "disturbed and outraged" and that she needs solutions instantly explaining why the scholar was taken into immigration enforcement’s custody.

"I’m demanding that ICE present fast details about why he was arrested, the place he's and the way his due course of is being protected," she s.

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Folks walked to Milford Excessive College's commencement ceremony on June 1, 2025. A number of ICE arrests had been made in Milford on Saturday, together with a Milford Excessive scholar who was detained on his strategy to volleyball follow. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Pictures)

Within the publish she blames the Trump admin for what she describes as an try and create concern.

"The Trump Administration continues to create concern in our communities, and it’s making us all much less protected," her publish states.

In her assertion, Healey claims that the scholar was detained on Saturday with none warning or subsequent rationalization supplied to state officers.

"But once more, native officers and legislation enforcement have been left in the dead of night with no heads up and no solutions to their questions," she stated.

The neighborhood gathered to protest exterior of Milford on Sunday. Lots of demanded Gomes be let loose and that ICE cease harassing members of their neighborhood.

Milford Excessive College graduates protest exterior of Milford City Corridor a day after 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva was detained by ICE on his strategy to volleyball follow. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Pictures)

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U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Democrat who represents Milford in Congress, attended the protest and made be aware on X that Gomes was "enrolled in honors courses, a training assistant for women volleyball [and] participant for boys volleyball, and a member of the college band."

"This administration has its public security priorities backwards. It pardons cop-beaters from Jan. 6 however detains high-school volleyball gamers. It makes gun-purchaser background checks more durable whereas pushing for tax breaks to purchase silencers for pistols. This reckless conduct doesn't make the residents of Milford safer, and I stand with the neighborhood in assist of legislation [and] order," he wrote.

U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Democrat who represents Milford in Congress, attended the protest and made be aware on X that Gomes was "enrolled in honors courses, a training assistant for women volleyball [and] participant for boys volleyball, and a member of the college band." ( Rep. Jake Auchincloss on X)

Milford College District Superintendent Kevin McIntyre says that Gomes’ detention is one in every of many apprehensions to happen within the southern Massachusetts neighborhood.

McIntyre says the district can not take any position in immigration enforcement, however they are going to "assist all of our college students and households, together with those that are immigrants to the US."

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"They're members of the neighborhood, college students in our lecture rooms, athletes that compete representing Milford, musicians, artists, pals, and neighbors. We are going to do every little thing in our energy to assist our college students and households throughout these troublesome instances," he stated in his assertion.