03/23/2026
A superintendent in New York traveled to Guatemala to deliver a student's cap, gown and diploma after he was picked up by ICE and forced to self-deport just weeks before graduation.
"Yeah. It's very difficult as a superintendent, a father, to think about if something like that were to have happened to any of my kids," the superintendent said. He took two plane rides and a five-and-a-half-hour car trip through the foothills of Guatemala, where he was finally reunited with Alvaro Velasquez and his family.
