A Milford, Massachusetts, teen detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will go before an immigration judge on Thursday.

Marcelo Gomes Da Silva is an 18-year-old Milford High School student. He was detained by ICE last weekend in an operation that originally targeted his father. On Thursday, a judge will decide if he can be released as his attorneys challenge efforts to detain and deport him.

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Gomes Da Silva's attorneys are cautiously optimistic he’ll be given bond. Thursday's hearing comes after another on earlier in the week, where a judge denied a push by federal authorities to move Gomes Da Silva out of state to a facility in Rhode Island.

That hearing afforded his attorneys the chance to meet with

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