Marcelo Gomes da Silva, center, is embraced by friends outside his Milford, Mass., home Thursday, June 5, 2025, after his release from ICE detention. The 18-year-old Milford High School student was granted bail by an immigration judge after being illegally detained since last weekend when ICE agents stopped him on his way to volleyball practice.
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Friends and family press against a window as they wait for Marcelo Gomes da Silva to arrive home in Milford, Mass., on Thursday, June 5, 2025, following his release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Gomes da Silva, 18, a junior at Milford High School, was freed on bail after an immigration judge ordered his release earlier that day. He had been detained since the weekend after ICE agents stopped him during a traffic stop while he was on his way to volleyball practice. His detention prompted student walkouts and community protests in Milford calling for his release.
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Patricia, 57, gets emotional as she describes the deplorable conditions she endures living in an apartment style home. Besides rats residing in the building the dwelling has broken asbestos siding, exposed wires, rat feces and old furniture, mattresses and other junk left behind by former tenants. Patricia is also battling health issues and a daughter who is fighting a drug addiction and was recently jailed for allegedly robbing a convenience store. Help from the Board of Health has been minimal.
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Margarita embraces her daughter Katherin, 9, during the car ride home after receiving positive news at her ICE check-in appointment in Burlington, Mass., Wednesday, June 18, 2025. The Honduran immigrant learned she no longer needs to purchase tickets to leave the country and will not need to check in again for a couple of months, providing relief from the nearly weekly appointments she had been required to attend. The outcome came amid a surge in ICE enforcement operations in Massachusetts, where agents arrested 1,461 people in May under the Trump administration’s mandate to arrest at least 3,000 immigrants daily nationwide. Margarita, who has lived in the U.S. for 10 years and wears an ankle monitor, had faced the possibility of detention at the appointment. Katherin is a U.S. citizen.
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AUGUSTA , ME — 2/11/2025 – (L-R) Honorary Pages Sadie Archer, Grace Hawkers, and Rose Charland got a chance to work on the floor of the House of Representatives inside the Maine State House. According to the Maine House of Representatives website, “Honorary Pages have the opportunity to see what it’s like to work on the floor of the House and be part of a Legislative Session. Pages perform such duties as delivering messages to Legislators and distributing Amendments and Supplements in the Chamber.”
