What was supposed to be a quick concert getaway to Boston has turned into a high-stakes immigration battle for Maria Rosales, 32, who flew in to see Noah Kahan at Fenway Park and wound up in federal custody on her way home, according to her attorney.
Rosales, a longtime color-guard leader and dermatology clinic assistant visiting from Orlando, attended Kahan’s July 8 show at Fenway. Her lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, says that when she tried to fly home on July 10, immigration officers at Logan International Airport detained her and transferred her to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Burlington. She is now fighting to stay in the region rather than be shipped out.
Pomerleau says Rosales appeared in ICE’s online detainee database and is being held in Burlington. He says Rosales, a DACA recipient with a renewal application pending since September 2023, had a removal order dating back to June 2017 that she did not know existed. He has filed a habeas corpus petition challenging her detention. U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin has issued an emergency order blocking federal officials from transferring her out of Massachusetts while the case gets sorted, and Pomerleau said another person, DJ David Ardila, was detained at Logan the same day and is listed in ICE records, as reported by The Boston Globe…