An 18-year-old Detroit high school student was just 3.5 credits away from graduating from Western International High School in Detroit when he was arrested on May 20 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection,

Duarte, a Detroit high school student, is currently in Louisiana awaiting deportation back to Columbia after he was detained in Rockford while driving to a field trip.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Detroit denied Maykol Bogoya-Duarte's attempt to stay in the country to graduate from high school.