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New Haven Student Being Held In ICE Detention Center
Advocates are saying that an immigrant student is being unjustly detained by the federal government.

NEW HAVEN, CT — An 18-year-old Wilbur Cross High School students is being held at a detention center in Bristol, MA, after he was picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The New Haven Register reported that Mario Aguilar Castanon was stopped when entering Superior Court in Milford to answer to charges connected to a West Haven car crash on Aug. 4.
School officials and immigrant advocates are now rallying around Aguilar Castanon, who they say fled gang violence in Guatemala in 2016.
Read the full story in The Register.
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