# @newsday on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DWWkT-hj2CE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/62096421-newsday-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-03-26T15:26:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

Alvaro Castro Velasquez teared up as Roosevelt schools Superintendent Shawn Wightman pulled a blue cap and gown out of a manila envelope.

Castro Velasquez — and Wightman — had waited nearly nine months for this moment, after the young man was detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement just weeks before his high school graduation.

In a private ceremony on a rainy evening, under the sterile light of a hotel restaurant in Guatemala, Castro Velasquez, now 20, finally received his diploma.

Read more on this story at the link in bio. (Photo: Shawn Wightman)
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#longislandny #nassaucountyny #rooseveltny #immigration #trumpadministration

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