The 20-year-old Bronx high school student who was detained after an immigration hearing last month has released his first statement, describing being taken into custody and thanking his classmates for their support.
Dylan, who is from Venezuela and the first known New York City public school student to be detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in President Donald Trump’s second term, issued the statement through his lawyers while being held in Pennsylvania. He said plainclothes ICE officers followed him and his mom out of the courtroom on May 21 after a judge dismissed his deportation case — and that he was handcuffed moments later.
“All I want is to go home so I can continue studying, to see the people who I love, and to be free,” Dylan said in a statement translated from Spanish by his attorneys…