A New Jersey immigration judge has ordered the deportation of a Bronx high school student who has spent more than four months in federal custody, his attorneys who plan to appeal the decision said Wednesday.

Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Venezuelan-born student at Ellis Prep High School in the Bronx, was arrested on May 21 in Lower Manhattan while attending a mandatory immigration hearing tied to his asylum application. His arrest was the first involving a New York City public school student during President Trump’s second term, a period marked by aggressive federal efforts to remove undocumented immigrants regardless of criminal history.

The Department of Homeland Security has argued that the 20-year-old entered the United States illegally in April 2024, a claim his lawyers and supporters st

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