Educators and community members rallied Monday for the release of a San Fernando Valley high schooler who has been in federal immigration detention for almost three months.

Men claiming to be immigration agents arrested Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz while he walked the family dog in Van Nuys on Aug. 8 , less than a week before the 18-year-old would start his senior year at Reseda Charter High School.

Guerrero-Cruz’s former teacher Lizette Becerra said when she visits him at the Adelanto Detention Facility and talks to him on the phone he always mentions going back to school.

“ If he's dreaming about the day that he can walk across the stage and graduate, then we're gonna continue to fight for him so that he is able to do that,” Becerra said.

A senior Department of Homeland Securit

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