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A 16-year-old public high school student in the Bronx was arrested at a check-in with ICE agents in Lower Manhattan on Thursday — marking the latest in a growing number of children and young adults swept up by the Trump administration’s deportation dragnet.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the teen’s arrest in a statement Friday. Joel Camas, a student at Gotham Collaborative High School, was being held at an Office of Refugee Resettlement youth shelter in The Bronx, his attorneys said.

Joel, who immigrated to the U.S. fro

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