Mary Markos

1 week ago | nbcboston.com | Mary Markos |Asher Klein

A day after a federal immigration spokesperson said an undocumented Massachusetts high schooler was telling "blatant lies" about his six days in custody at an ICE facility in Burlington, the teenager is standing by his story. "When I was in the prison, I was like, 'Can I please get myself checked out? I could have a concussion, I feel really sick,'" Marcelo Gomes Da Silva told Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra Monday. "The guards looked at me and said, 'We can't do anything for you.

3 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Alysha Palumbo |Mary Markos

A Massachusetts high school student was not the original target of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that led to his detainment, federal officials said during a press conference discussing immigration operations Monday. Marcelo Gomes, an 18-year-old Milford High School junior, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on his way to volleyball practice Saturday morning.

3 weeks ago | nbcboston.com | Mary Markos

A wave of devastation and anger has swept through Milford, Massachusetts, after an 18-year-old high school junior, identified by family as Marcelo, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Saturday. What should have been a weekend of celebrating graduation transformed into an impassioned fight for liberation, culminating in a mile-long march from Milford High School to Town Hall on Sunday.

3 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Marc Fortier |Mary Markos |Kaitlin McKinley Becker

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is demanding answers following U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's arrest of a Milford High School student on Saturday. "I'm disturbed and outraged by reports that a Milford High School student was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice yesterday," she said in a statement on social media Sunday. "Yet again, local officials and law enforcement have been left in the dark with no heads up and no answers to their questions.

3 weeks ago | telemundonuevainglaterra.com | Mary Markos

Un estudiante de 18 años de la preparatoria Milford fue detenido por agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE) el sábado por la mañana. Cursa el penúltimo año en la escuela, donde su entrenador de voleibol dijo que destaca en deportes y música. Su entrenador de voleibol dice que es un ser humano excepcional con una sonrisa contagiosa. Y ahora su comunidad se siente impotente al saber que se encuentra bajo custodia de ICE.