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Governor demands ICE transparency after Milford high‑school student detained
Summary
The governor said ICE should release information and should release the 18‑year‑old Milford High School student unless the agency can show criminal involvement; he called for federal accounting of recent arrests and said the detentions have created fear in communities.
The governor urged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide information about the detention of an 18‑year‑old Milford High School student and said the young man should be released unless ICE can show criminal involvement. “Unless ICE has additional information that would substantiate that there that this individual had some criminal involvement, he should be released,” the governor said, describing the student as an honors student and a member of school activities who had lived in Milford since he was about 5 or 6 years old.
The governor said the incident — which he said occurred over the weekend while the student was in a car with other Milford High students on their way to volleyball practice — has left the family and community “pretty devastated.” He repeated a request for federal transparency and public accounting of who has been arrested and on what charges. “We need an explanation. We need an understanding,” he said.
The governor said he supports ICE removing people with criminal convictions but expressed concern that ICE has, by its own admission, arrested people without criminal records in Massachusetts. “They've arrested some people with criminal backgrounds. ... They've also arrested several hundred people by their own admission who don't have any criminal background,” he said, adding that the arrests have “created a lot of fear and anxiety in communities.”
On whether he sought a meeting with ICE leadership, the governor disputed a claim that he had specifically requested a meeting: “That's inaccurate. That's not true.” He said he is willing to meet with ICE officials, including former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Tom Homan, to discuss the matter and to seek transparency.
Ending: The governor said he was awaiting further information from ICE and reiterated a call for the federal agency to follow the law and to provide the public with details that would justify continued detention rather than release.
