Officials ‘Working Hard’ To Get Detained Meriden Student Back To CT

Meriden, Conn. high school students rally to protest classmate’s ICE detention

High school students in Meriden, Conn., plan to rally Tuesday in support of a classmate who was snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with his father, days before graduation. Students and state officials are outraged the teen will be cooped up in a Texas ICE detention center instead of onstage receiving his diploma in person at Tuesday evening’s ceremony in Connecticut. ICE detained them last week after a routine scheduled check…

Teranga Academy graduate in ICE custody, family and school staff show concern - WNKY News 40 Television

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Fugees Family, an educational nonprofit for immigrant and refugee families and children, has a partnership in Bowling Green with the city’s independent school district. The partnership between the two brought forth Teranga Academy, but now, one of its graduates is living a very different life. Ernesto Manuel-Andres, who just graduated from Teranga Academy three weeks ago, is now in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cu…

Seniors plan to rally at Meriden graduation for classmate in ICE custody

Senior students at Francis T. Maloney High School in Meriden planned to rally around one of their classmates who would not be among them at graduation Tuesday night.

Officials ‘Working Hard’ To Get Detained Meriden Student Back To CT

Officials 'Working Hard' To Get Detained Meriden Student Back To CT - Meriden, CT - "Our community is outraged," officials said regarding the Meriden high school student who was taken into custody last week by ICE.

Meriden officials: Working hard to get student detained by ICE back to Connecticut

MERIDEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Meriden Mayor Kevin M. Scarpati (U) and Council Majority Leader Sonya R. Jelks (D) released a statement Monday on behalf of the family of a Maloney High School senior who was recently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The statement does not release the name of the student, who is a minor, and asks for his privacy to be respected by keeping his personal information off of social media. Former U.S. Secre…

Meriden high schoolers show support for classmate detained by ICE ahead of graduation

A high school senior in Meriden was taken into custody by ICE last week, days before his graduation. Some of his classmates are showing their support for him and plan to do so at the ceremony on Tuesday. Mayor Kevin Scarpati says the student was attending a non-criminal immigration hearing when he was detained. The school district says any student...