Mayor Eric Adams is supporting a 16-year-old Bronx high schooler nabbed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with the city formally filing papers backing his lawsuit seeking to halt his deportation.

The teen, Joel Camas, was arrested during a routine immigration check on Oct. 23, and faces being sent back to Ecuador where he fled threats from violent gangs in 2022, according to documents filed in Manhattan federal court.

The Adams administration argued Camas, as a teenage public school student, should have a right to “access city schools and services while their immigration issues are being resolved,” according to the brief filed in his support Monday.

Mayor Eric Adams is supporting Joel Camas, 16, a high school student at Gotham Collaborative High School in The Bronx, after he

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