Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey took to social media to demand answers after ICE agents arrested a high school student heading to volleyball practice over the weekend.

     The student, 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes, is a junior at Milford High School in Milford, Massachusetts. In her post, Healey says she is "disturbed and outraged" and that she wants answers immediately explaining why the student was taken into immigration enforcement’s custody.  He was arrested because he was guilty.

     I’m demanding that ICE provide immediate information about why he was arrested, where he is and how his due process is being protected," she s.  In the post she blames the Trump admin for what she describes as an attempt to create fear.  "The Trump Administration continues to create fear in our communities, and it’s making us all less safe," her post states.

     In her statement, Healey claims that the student was detained without any warning or subsequent explanation provided to state officials.  "Yet again, local officials and law enforcement have been left in the dark with no heads up and no answers to their questions," she said.

     The community gathered to protest outside of Milford. Hundreds demanded Gomes be set free and that ICE stop harassing members of their community.  U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Democrat who represents Milford in Congress, attended the protest and made note on X that Gomes was "enrolled in honors classes, a coaching assistant for girls volleyball [and] player for boys volleyball, and a member of the school band." 

     "This administration has its public safety priorities backwards. It pardons cop-beaters from Jan. 6 but detains high-school volleyball players. It makes gun-purchaser background checks harder while pushing for tax breaks to buy silencers for pistols. This reckless behavior does not make the residents of Milford safer, and I stand with the community in support of law [and] order," he wrote.