Everett officials and federal immigration authorities are continuing to point fingers as new details emerge in the controversial arrest of a 13-year-old Brazilian national.

The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained the boy last week after local police “contacted federal law enforcement and notified them” the middle schooler had been arrested at a bus stop.

Speaking on an El Mundo Boston podcast Thursday, however, Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria flatly rejected claims that the city collaborated with ICE.

“We did not call ICE,” he maintained.

Instead, the agency “immediately” sent Everett police a detainer after the boy’s fingerprints were entered into a nationwide database following his Oct. 9 arrest, DeMaria explained. Th

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