Massachusetts Governor demands answers after ICE arrests Milford High School student
Massachusetts Gov Maura Healey took to social media Sunday evening to demand answers after ICE agents arrested a high school trainee heading to volleyball practice over the weekend The attendee -year-old Marcelo Gomes is a junior at Milford High School in Milford Massachusetts In her post Healey says she is disturbed and outraged and that she wants answers without delay explaining why the novice was taken into immigration enforcement s custody I m demanding that ICE provide immediate information about why he was arrested where he is and how his due process is being protected she s BLUE STATE GOVERNOR SOUNDS OFF ABOUT DISTURBING ICE OPERATIONS ON AFFLUENT LIBERAL ISLANDSIn the post she blames the Trump admin for what she describes as an attempt to create fear The Trump Administration continues to create fear in our communities and it s making us all less safe her post states In her message Healey indicates that the trainee was detained on Saturday without any warning or subsequent explanation provided to state personnel Yet again local agents and law enforcement have been left in the dark with no heads up and no answers to their questions she disclosed The area gathered to protest outside of Milford on Sunday Hundreds demanded Gomes be set free and that ICE stop harassing members of their neighborhood DEM GOVERNOR BACKS ICE ARRESTING 'CRIMINALS' DESPITE VOWING TO USE 'EVERY TOOL' AGAINST TRUMP DEPORTATIONSU S Rep Jake Auchincloss a Democrat who represents Milford in Congress attended the protest and made note on X that Gomes was enrolled in honors classes a coaching assistant for girls volleyball and athlete for boys volleyball and a member of the school band This administration has its population safety priorities backwards It pardons cop-beaters from Jan but detains high-school volleyball players It makes gun-purchaser background checks harder while pushing for tax breaks to buy silencers for pistols This reckless behavior does not make the residents of Milford safer and I stand with the society in sponsorship of law and order he wrote Milford School District Superintendent Kevin McIntyre says that Gomes detention is one of countless apprehensions to take place in the southern Massachusetts neighborhood McIntyre says the district cannot take any role in immigration enforcement but they will promotion all of our students and families including those who are immigrants to the United States They are members of the neighborhood students in our classrooms athletes that compete representing Milford musicians artists friends and neighbors We will do everything in our power to backing our students and families during these intricate times he disclosed in his comment Sunday morning was Milford High School s graduation and Healey says a day of celebration has now been tarnished My heart goes out to the Milford society on what was supposed to be a celebratory graduation day she reported
