{"id":162440,"date":"2026-03-13T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162440\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:27:28","slug":"judge-orders-mass-14-year-old-detained-by-federal-immigration-be-returned-from-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162440\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders Mass. 14-year-old detained by federal immigration be returned from New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

A judge on Wednesday ordered a 14-year-old girl be returned to Massachusetts after she was taken<\/a> by federal agents to a facility for minors in New York.<\/p>\n

District Judge Leo T. Sorokin ordered that the girl, who is listed under the pseudonym B.E.S in court documents, leave the facility at 9 a.m. on Thursday and be reunited with her aunt, who is a U.S. Citizen. The aunt is required to file an affidavit detailing her name, status as a citizen and her intent to be the teenager\u2019s temporary or permanent guardian. The teenager\u2019s lawyer, Andrew Lattarulo, and Rayford Farquhar, a lawyer for the U.S. District Attorney\u2019s Office, agreed on the judge\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

The teenager was born in Brazil and entered the United States on a visitor\u2019s visa in 2019. According to Farquhar, the teenager \u2014 who attends the Brighton Public Schools \u2014 was in a vehicle in Marlborough which was pulled over by authorities on March 10.<\/p>\n

He said there were other individuals in the vehicle who did not have legal status to be in the country and that the girl was without her caretaker. At the time, the girl was living with her two brothers, both of whom are over 21, according to Lattarulo. <\/p>\n

She had previously lived with her father, who is now \u201cout of the picture,\u201d Lattarulo said.<\/p>\n

Farquhar says it is his understanding that the authorities who pulled the vehicle over were local officers, who then contacted federal agents.<\/p>\n

Lattarulo, however, said he wasn\u2019t sure if that was the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the child was in school, I would assume it\u2019d be like a truancy officer,\u201d Lattarulo said.<\/p>\n

The teenager was then taken into custody by agents of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a government agency under the Department of Health and Human Services. <\/p>\n

Court documents say the girl was taken to the Marlborough police department, where she waited several hours. Officers tried to contact the girl\u2019s father to have her released, court documents read. After she wasn\u2019t released, she was taken to the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston. The teenager was then taken to the contracted juvenile facility in New York, arriving after 7 a.m. on Wednesday, according to Farquhar. <\/p>\n

Judge Sorokin questioned why she was taken to New York to which Farquhar replied that the closest available bed for the child was located in the state.<\/p>\n

Sorokin expressed confusion and surprise when he learned federal agents didn\u2019t release the child to state authorities.<\/p>\n

He said that when agents arrest parents, they contact an agency such as the Department of Children and Families.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t take the person into custody,\u201d he said. \u201cThey just turn them over to the state authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The teenager is expected to leave the New York facility by 9 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge on Wednesday ordered a 14-year-old girl be returned to Massachusetts after she was taken by federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-162440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}