One other New York Metropolis public faculty scholar has been detained by immigration brokers, the Training Division confirmed late Friday.
The coed, whose title and college haven’t been launched, attended a authorized listening to to hunt asylum and was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the division stated.
“This younger individual ought to be returning dwelling from faculty right now, surrounded by household — not going through detention,” faculties Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos stated in an announcement, including that she was “deeply saddened” by the arrest.
State Sen. Mike Gianaris stated Friday that the scholar was an eleventh grader from Grover Cleveland Excessive College in Queens, Fox 5 reported. The Training Division didn’t affirm these particulars.
That is the second identified case of a public faculty scholar detained by immigration authorities throughout President Donald Trump’s second time period. The primary scholar, Dylan Lopez Contreras, 20, was arrested by ICE two weeks in the past after a routine courtroom listening to in Manhattan and has not been launched. Dylan’s arrest has prompted an outcry from native officers, who’ve referred to as for his launch, and his Bronx faculty, ELLIS Prep, has rallied round him.
Because the Trump administration has ramped up its efforts to deport immigrants, different college students have additionally been detained by ICE, together with one in Massachusetts and one other in Detroit. The coed in Massachusetts has since been launched. Federal officers didn’t affirm Friday the place the Detroit scholar is being held.
In New York Metropolis, Aviles-Ramos urged households to proceed sending their youngsters to high school “the place they belong.”
“Our dedication to all college students, together with our latest New Yorkers, stays unwavering,” Aviles-Ramos stated. “Our insurance policies haven’t modified: faculties are and can proceed to be protected, welcoming areas for each youngster.”
A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams stated that Metropolis Corridor was gathering extra details about the incident.
“As Mayor Adams has stated repeatedly, our metropolis is much less protected when individuals are afraid to make use of public assets — together with going to their courtroom hearings — and thus really feel compelled to cover within the shadows,” the spokesperson stated in an announcement.
Town’s Legislation Division not too long ago filed a friend-of-the-court transient in assist of Dylan’s launch, claiming his arrest was a “lure” that undermined religion within the courtroom system, threatening “to discourage individuals from accessing the courtroom system on which native governance relies upon.”
The authorized transient marked probably the most direct rebukes from the Adams administration of Trump’s immigration coverage.
New York Bureau Chief Amy Zimmer contributed.
Cara Fitzpatrick is a narrative editor at Chalkbeat. Contact Cara at cfitzpatrick@chalkbeat.org.
