A New Jersey immigration judge has ordered the deportation of Dylan Lopez Contreras , the Bronx transfer student who last spring became the first known local schoolkid to be swept up in President Trump’s immigration crackdown .

Judge Maria Akalski denied Dylan’s asylum claim at a virtual hearing Tuesday afternoon, as the 20-year-old Venezuelan citizen remains detained in western Pennsylvania, according to federal immigration trackers . He has about a month to appeal, which his lawyers indicated Wednesday he intends to do.

“This decision is especially egregious in light of the fact that, from the very beginning, Dylan has done everything right,” said Lauren Kostes, supervising attorney for the New York Legal Assistance Group immigrant protection unit. “He entered the country with

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