A 16-year-old Bronx student with special immigrant status was arrested and detained by ICE agents during a mandatory routine check-in, lawyers for the boy said in a lawsuit seeking his release Friday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities took Joel Camas, a junior at Gotham Collaborative High School, into custody Thursday at 201 Varick St. in lower Manhattan, with plans to transfer him out of New York and deport him back to his native Ecuador, according to his attorneys and sources.
His lawyers believe he is still in custody in the Bronx.
“ICE’s actions of arresting a child — with legal status reserved for particularly vulnerable minors — at a routine check-in is breathtakingly cruel and a clear violation of U.S. immigration law and the Constitution,” Elizabeth Gyori,

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