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Teenager Honor student.
Arrived in US at 5 years old,
Grabbed/abducted by ICE GESTAPO while with school teammates
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/2/2325536/-City-outraged-after-ICE-thugs-nab-teen-driving-to-volleyball-practice?
It was just a normal Saturday morning as high school student Marcelo Gomes Da Silva was traveling with his teammates to volleyball practice. The honors student was looking forward to participating with fellow band members at the Milford, Massachusetts High School the following day.
Instead, Marcelo was stopped and arrested by Trump’s Gestapo Ice agents. His teammates were totally traumatized and never made it to their practice. The commencement event turned into a city protest demonstration by citizens furious that one of their own was apprehended. Marcelo was a model student — a leader among the boys at his school. He arrived in the US when he was five-years old.
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/01/multimedia/photos-community-protests-ice-detainment-milford/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link
The 18-year-old’s detention by federal immigration officers sparked a post-commencement protest Sunday, with more than 1,000 demonstrators at Milford Town Hall lining the sidewalk and waving signs condemning ICE and calling for Gomes’s release.
“Hands off our kids,” they chanted.
Friends, school officials, advocates, and local politicians spoke out against the detainment of Gomes, a high school junior who has attended Milford Public Schools most of his childhood.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(156,114 posts)k_buddy762
(638 posts)No one.
Ping Tung
(4,137 posts)
SCantiGOP
(14,664 posts)Promised that they would remove the worst of the worst, the most hardened criminals.
So this high school honor roll volleyball player must have been one bad dude.
Ping Tung
(4,137 posts)Alas the student was a resident of a state that is on Trump's list of targets.
2024 The final results show Harris with 61.3% of the vote and Donald Trump with 36.5%
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)Did it change anything, or is he still in custody??????
sheshe2
(95,834 posts)His family finally found out that he was being held at a facility in Burlington after he was allowed to call them.
jmowreader
(52,896 posts)You know what’s going to happen: they’re going to call his parents and tell them he’s ready to be picked up in Burlington. When they go to get him, they’ll be arrested too.
sheshe2
(95,834 posts)ICE agents who detained Milford, Massachusetts student were looking for his father, feds say
dickthegrouch
(4,296 posts)I heard on CBS radio this afternoon: "We note that the father hasn't turned himself in, yet"
How fucking cowardly is that?
I hope this young man gets a huuuuuuge beautiful settlement for his false arrest.
SWBTATTReg
(26,026 posts)those thugs that literally attacked people across the land w/o due course of law will be remembered and those participating in such atrocities will pay. As long as Garland is NOT in the picture too. I still hate Garland and still think he should have done more.
orangecrush
(28,274 posts)But don't think he "could" have done more.
Simply because he was never working for the people of the United States.
That much is obvious .
Midnight Writer
(25,141 posts)xuplate
(159 posts)What does it take to cross the line and fall from MAGA’s graces? Is it hungry children—loss of Medicaid, no disaster aid, flu shot cutbacks? In Salem, the witch trials continued until the governor’s wife was accused. In Milford the MAGA attitude continued until a sports team was affected. Everyone has their priorities.
Norbert
(7,555 posts)
Evolve Dammit
(21,488 posts)
generalbetrayus
(1,497 posts)NO MORE.
IrishBubbaLiberal
(2,561 posts)Even the San Diego restaurant manager was handcuffed by ICE Gestapo.
Seems nearly everyone at that restaurant that the Trump ICE Gestapo severely manhandled and handcuffed.
As far as I have read in news reports, ALL of those harassed by ICE Gestapo were ultimately released except TWO who didn’t have identification on them.
All thus were US CITIZENS and LEGAL RESIDENTS of the USA
But it’s a repeat of 1930s NAZI GERMANY in Amerika now
multigraincracker
(36,940 posts)Let alone 34.
IcyPeas
(24,839 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(174,821 posts)At Stephen Miller's orders, ICE and Homeland Security are pursing quotas and that quota system is hurting law enforcement
Members of other agencies are getting detailed to assist ICE, while Justice Department personnel shift to immigration-focused teams and prioritize immigration-related cases.
Link to tweet
NEW: A sweeping new ICE operation shows how President Trump's focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcement.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-06-04T12:35:08Z
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ice-operation-trump-focus-immigration-reshape-federal-law-enforcement-rcna193494
Miller also threatened to fire leaders of field offices posting the bottom 10% of arrest numbers monthly, the two sources said.....
It is the latest example of how President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations is reshaping federal law enforcement as officials shift resources toward immigration-related cases — including nonviolent administrative offenses — leaving less time and attention for other types of criminal investigations.
The plan calls for using 3,000 ICE agents, including 1,800 from Homeland Security Investigations, which generally investigates transnational crimes and is not typically involved in arresting noncriminal immigrants; 2,000 Justice Department employees from the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration; and 500 employees from Customs and Border Protection. It also includes 250 IRS agents, some of whom may be used to provide information on the whereabouts of immigrants using tax information, while others would have the authority to make arrests, according to the operation plan.
The Department of Homeland Security has also requested the use of 21,000 National Guard members to provide support in ICE operations, according to two additional sources familiar with the request, though that number has yet to be approved by the Defense Department or by governors who would be deploying their state’s units, multiple sources cautioned.Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, responding to the Miller meeting, said, “Keeping President Trump’s promise to deport illegal aliens is something the Administration takes seriously. We are committed to aggressively and efficiently removing illegal aliens from the United States, and ensuring our law enforcement officers have the resources necessary to do so. The safety of the American people depends upon it.”.....
Still, federal law enforcement officials who spoke to NBC News said the increased focus on cases with an immigration angle is pulling resources from other law enforcement priorities.
“There is such a priority on making immigration arrests that it takes longer to get answers on anything else. Something that used to be resolved in a matter of days now takes weeks,” a law enforcement official said.
The shift in resources affects not only the type of cases taken but also the type of personnel involved in immigration raids. The FBI is almost always the agency leading the charge in joint investigations, but it has traditionally avoided getting involved in enforcement operations that involve only immigration enforcement, current and former officials confirmed......
Meanwhile, it is unclear whether or when the shifting resources and reorganization will result in the Trump administration’s hitting its desired deportation numbers, like the 3,000-person daily quota Miller demanded in the mid-May meeting. ICE no longer posts comprehensive daily arrest statistics, but on social media, it has posted details of at least 350 arrests since May 26.
Miller's quota system also means that innocent or normal persons who are not breaking any laws are being arrested to reach the quota.