Advocates are demanding the release of a Brooklyn high school student who was arrested by ICE after a routine immigration hearing last week.

Mamadou Mouctar Diallo, a 20-year-old asylum-seeker from Guinea, was detained at 26 Federal Plaza on Aug. 4. Diallo’s asylum case — he is reportedly seeking Special Immigrant Juveniles status, which applies to migrants under age 21 who have been abused or neglected by a parent — was still pending.

He is at least the third New York City public school student to have been detained by ICE since May.

“Mouctar has followed every single rule. He has done things exactly the right way,” said Council Member Lincoln Restler at an Aug. 14 rally. “He is seeking asylum here in the United States. He has become deeply enmeshed in our Brooklyn community … and yet,

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