Massachusetts High School Student Granted Bond After Being Detained by ICE

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said that ICE agents were targeting the student’s father, who owns the vehicle driven by the student at the time of arrest.

A Homeland Security officer speaks to Marcelo Gomes da Silva's classmates and relatives gathered outside the immigration court in Chelmsford, Mass., on June 5, 2025. Brian Snyder/Reuters

An immigration judge has granted bond to an 18-year-old Massachusetts high school student who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on May 31.

Marcelo Gomes da Silva, a junior at Milford Public High School in Massachusetts, was released from ICE custody on Thursday after Judge Jenny Beverly set his bond at $2,000.