Editors note: This story has been updated to correct information about Milford High’s volleyball game.

A Milford High School student who has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since last weekend was recently moved from a field office holding cell into solitary confinement, his lawyers told MassLive Wednesday night.

Attorney Miriam Conrad said in an interview that when she asked one of the guards at ICE’s Burlington, Massachusetts, field office why her client — 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva — was no longer being held in a cell along with 25 to 30 other detainees, he said that the guards thought “he’d be more comfortable” in a separate holding space.

Conrad expressed skepticism about the guard’s assessment, saying that her client “needs people to talk to.” B

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