Marcelo Gomes da Silva's arrest sparked an outcry from Massachusetts officials and the Mildford community where he has lived since he came to the United States in 2012.

A high school senior was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, during an immigration hearing in Hartford this week, according to Meriden Public Schools. A Maloney High School twelfth grader was taken into custody just days before graduation during a hearing that wasn’t criminal in nature,

Marcelo Gomes, the Milford, Massachusetts high school student currently detained by ICE, had an expired student visa, his attorney said.