(WWJ) A Detroit high school student is facing deportation after being detained during a traffic stop.
WWJ Newsradio 950's Pat Vitale reports the 18-year-old immigrant from Columbia was arrested while driving to a field trip at Lake Erie Metro Park, near Rockwood.
Other students from Western International High School were in the car with him when he was pulled over. And when police couldn't understand the teen, who speaks Spanish, the officers contacted Border Patrol.
According to a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the teen did not have a driver's license, only a city of Detroit ID.
CBP responded and agents confirmed that the young man was in the U.S. illegally, having ignored a judge’s removal order and lost his appeal.
The teen was the only one the car without legal status and was turned over to ICE custody, CBP said.
He is now is being held at Chippewa County Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula.