Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 19, was enjoying his time in the visitors gallery in the House of Representatives, watching Donald Trump’s speech. But When Trump honored the gold medal-winning U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, Moulton’s chief of staff Neesha Suarez escorted Gomes out of the chamber. She had seen a post from the Department of Homeland Security and worried about Gomes’s safety in a room with a heavy law enforcement presence.
“We are committed to enforcing the law and fighting for the arrest, detention, and removal of aliens like him,” the post stated.
The teen legally came to the U.S. from Brazil when he was six with his parents, but his visa later expired. ICE said they were looking for his father, claiming that he had a history of speeding in residential areas, including driving over 100 miles per hour. The Boston Globe only found that Gomes’s father ran a stop sign in 2023.
Suarez had driven Gomes to Washington and knew that he didn’t have his phone, so she took him to Moulton’s office to watch the rest of the speech. He checked social media, texted his friends, and called his mother.
After the speech, Moulton met Gomes in his office and told him to “keep fighting.”
Gomes was happy to be in Washington, spending two days in the city, getting a tour of the Capitol, and meeting politicians such as Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey. Before his arrest, he wanted to be a plumber, but now he wants to be a congressman.
“Things are going so good, and then all of a sudden you remember that you could get taken at any time,” Gomes said. “I truly believe everything in my life is in God’s hands. If he wants me to be here and work for the people and help immigrants as much as I can, I’ll be here. But if he doesn’t, then I’ll go back.”
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