Judge orders Milford teen arrested by ICE to be released on bond
Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, the 18-year-old Milford student arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Saturday, has been granted bond by an immigration Judge on Thursday.
Immigration Judge Jenny Beverly set a $2,000 bond Thursday afternoon. Robin Nice, one of Gomes Da Silva's lawyers, told reporters that the hope is that he is released as early as Thursday afternoon.
Gomes Da Silva appeared virtually before a judge at the Chelmsford Immigration Court during a hearing set to decide whether he would be released on bond or remain detained.
He is currently detained in Plymouth, something Nice said she was not aware of before the hearing. Gomes Da Silva had previously been detained at ICE's field office in Burlington, Massachusetts.
'That's what we've been told just now,' Nice said in front of reporters. 'I don't know if they moved him to Plymouth because they didn't have a way to put a laptop in front of him. I don't know.'
The attorney said that Gomes Da Silva will be moved back to Burlington before he is released — though Nice did not say when he will return.
Nice said her next steps will be to help her client obtain permanent status in the United States.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials argued Wednesday to transfer Gomes Da Silva out of state to Rhode Island, but a judge sided with Gomes Da Silva's lawyer and denied the request that same day.
Gomes Da Silva was arrested on May 31 while driving in a car with his volleyball teammates. He was stopped and detained by ICE agents looking for his father, João Paulo Gomes-Pereira.
ICE had 'intelligence' on Gomes Da Silva's father 'from a local law enforcement agency,' according to Todd Lyons, the acting ICE director.
Federal officials on Monday defended the teenager's arrest, despite saying he was not the target of their operation. They claimed he was 'unlawfully' in the United States.
'We were looking for his father — obviously, he's the father of the year, because he brought his son up here illegally as well,' Lyons told reporters in Boston on Monday.
Nice, said that her client lawfully entered the United States. She told the judge Thursday that Gomes Da Silva came to the country on a visitor visa that became a student visa, which has since lapsed.
Miriam Conrad, another of Gomes Da Silva's attorneys, told MassLive that her client was originally held in a holding cell with 25 to 30 other detainees before he was moved to solitary confinement.
She called the conditions at the office 'horrendous,' saying her client had to sleep on a concrete floor and that the food offerings were meager and verged 'on the point of inedible' — so much so that a highlight for Gomes Da Silva was when he received a Snickers bar.
Residents in Milford protested the arrest of Gomes Da Silva on June 1. Some Milford High School students held a walkout in support of their classmate on June 2.
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