A Roosevelt student who was detained over the summer — weeks away from his high school graduation — has agreed to be sent back to his home country, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Alvaro Castro Velasquez, 19, has been in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since early June after he was detained on his way home from grocery shopping.

His Levittown-based attorney Pallvi Babbar said Castro Velasquez, who illegally crossed the southern border in 2022 as an unaccompanied minor from Guatemala, requested voluntary departure in a court hearing Tuesday.

"He’s frustrated and done," Babbar said. "He’s done with being isolated in the facility."

Castro Velasquez’s request was granted by a judge, and Babbar said the teen must leave the country by Oct. 14.

"For him, getting out wa

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