The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday explained in a reply to a post by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) that it “never intended to apprehend” a high schooler.
In a statement posted to the social platform X on Sunday, Healey said she was “disturbed and outraged by reports that a Milford High School student was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice yesterday.”
“Yet again, local officials and law enforcement have been left in the dark with no heads up and no answers to their questions.”
DHS responded to Healey’s post on X a day later by saying that officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “engaged in a targeted immigration enforcement operation of a known public safety threat and illegal alien, Joao Paulo Gomes-Pereira.”