(5 Jun 2025)
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Chelmsford, Massachusetts – 5 June 2025
1. UPSOUND (English) protestors chanting: “Release Marcelo Gomes now!”
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robin Nice, lawyer representing Gomes da Silva:
“Marcelo Gomes da Silva is an 18-year-old kid from Brazil originally and he’s been here since he was 7 years old. He came on a visa, he has no criminal record.”
3. Student holding photo of Gomes da Silva outside courthouse
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Robin Nice, lawyer representing Gomes da Silva:
“He was picked up on May 31st in the afternoon on his way to volleyball practice and he was detained ever since at the Burlington, Mass. ICE Processing Unit."
5. Protestors holding signs in support of Gomes da Silva outside courthouse
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Robin Nice, lawyer representing Gomes da Silva:
“ICE will say that they were targeting his dad, who I should say they haven’t actually said if he, dad has any sort of criminal record himself, but allegedly they were targeting dad, but they chose to go after Marcelo.”
7. Crowd cheering outside courthouse
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Robin Nice, lawyer representing Gomes da Silva:
“Today he was released on $2,000 bond, which we’re very happy about. We would have been happier if he hadn’t been detained at all. And the next step is for him to actually get out, and then we’ll sort of work on the long-term plan. So it’s sort of the sprint is over and the marathon begins.”
9. Students standing outside courthouse in support of Gomes da Silva
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Robin Nice, lawyer representing Gomes da Silva:
“He hasn’t had a shower since Saturday afternoon. So about five days. He’s brushed his teeth twice. He said the food is basically inedible. He’s really hungry. He’s been sleeping on a cement floor.”
11. UPSOUND (English) protestors chanting outside courthouse: “No fear, immigrants are welcome here!”
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Robin Nice, lawyer representing Gomes da Silva:
“It’s conditions that no one should be kept in. No sunlight, no window, no outside time.”
13. Close up of sign
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Robin Nice, lawyer representing Gomes da Silva:
“If anything, the silver lining from this is what a great opportunity to stand up and say, ‘No, not in our community. We are not okay with this and we’re not going to allow it.’ And I think that’s what we see here.”
15. UPSOUND (English) protestors chanting outside of courthouse: “How many kids are detained today?”
STORYLINE:
An immigration judge on Thursday granted bond to a Massachusetts high school student who was arrested on his way to volleyball practice last weekend.
Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, who came to the U.S. from Brazil at age 7, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Saturday.
Authorities have said the agents were looking for the Milford High School teenager’s father, who owns the car Gomes da Silva was driving at the time and had parked in a friend’s driveway.
“We would have been happier if he hadn’t been detained at all. And the next step is for him to actually get out, and then we’ll sort of work on the long-term plan. So it’s sort of the sprint is over and the marathon begins,” his lawyer, Robin Nice, told reporters after a hearing in Chelmsford.
Gomes da Silva, who was expected to be released Thursday afternoon on $2,000 bond, appeared via video from elsewhere in Massachusetts.
The immigration judge set a placeholder hearing date for a couple of weeks from Thursday, but it might take place months from that, Nice said.
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