# @newsday on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOqmh8YDrmv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38515478-newsday-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/498f40067e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-09-16T13:59:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

For months, a diploma and a blue graduation gown have sat in Superintendent Shawn Wightman’s office in the Roosevelt school district.

They belonged to Alvaro Castro Velasquez, a 19-year-old high school senior who was weeks away from graduating when he was picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on his way home from grocery shopping.

For more on this story, visit the link in bio.
(Photo Credit: Rick Kopstein, Shawn Wightman)

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brendan Yerkes | @BrendanYerkes23 | https://gondola.cc/BrendanYerkes23 | Content Producer |
| Newsday • Long Island News | @newsday | https://gondola.cc/newsday | Reporter/Journalist |

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