ICE nabs teenager hours before his senior prom, days before his graduation ceremony [SacBee.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/16/174:00 AM

On the day of his senior prom, Diego Ismael Puma Macancela was cowering in a bedroom closet, hiding from immigration officers as they pounded on doors outside.

Puma Macancela, a 19-year-old high school student in Ossining, N.Y., expected the authorities would be looking for him. A day before, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had arrested and detained his mother, an undocumented Ecuadoran immigrant who entered the U.S. illegally with him two years ago.

With his mother in ICE custody, the teenager had spent the night at his relatives' apartment, his cousin Gabriela Macancela, 21, told The Washington Post. And on the morning of June 8, Puma Macancela woke his cousin up with the news: the authorities were back for him, demanding that he go outside.

[For more of this story, written by Samantha Schmidt, go to http://www.sacbee.com/news/nat...rticle156246944.html]

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