Outrage Over Student Arrest That Landed Him in Immigration Detention

Style Magazine Newswire | 2/23/2018, 12:33 p.m.
The Houston school district is under fire after a student without legal status ended up in immigration detention following his …

Source: NBCNews.com

The Houston school district is under fire after a student without legal status ended up in immigration detention following his arrest by a school police officer for an altercation with a female student. A lawyer for Dennis Rivera Sarmiento, 19, said his client was bullied by the 15-year-old girl and retaliated only after she taunted him with racial slurs, threw a full bottle of Gatorade at him and confronted him. students at Stephen F. Austin High School in Houston staged a lunch hour walkout to protest Rivera's detention and the school's action, chanting "Free Dennis." Outrage over the youth's detention has forced the Houston Independent School District to make clear that it did not turn Rivera over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement or call ICE. The district said in a written statement it does not use district resources "to assist in deportation actions and we do not report students to ICE."

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