RALEIGH, N.C. – U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials could deport two 17-year-old students in North Carolina after police allege they helped a 14-year-old classmate obtain a gun.

A student at Millbrook High School alerted a school resource officer about a gun at school Thursday, and police investigated and arrested three teens: an unnamed 14-year-old student who allegedly was in possession of the .380 caliber pistol and ammo, and two 17-year-old immigrant students who allegedly helped him acquire it, WRAL reports.

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Franklin Castillo-Diaz, from Honduras, and Elsy Diaz-Quintanilla, of El Salvador, both face felony charges possessing a gun on school property, while Castillo-Diaz faces an additional misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

From The News & Observer:

When the two were booked into the Wake County Detention Center on the charges, federal Homeland Security officials asked that each of them be held for 48 hours if they were going to be released.

The requests say that Castillo-Diaz is believed to be in the United States illegally and that officials think it might in the country’s interests to deport Diaz-Quintanilla.

Homeland Security officials have already initiated paperwork to have the 17-year-olds removed from the country, WRAL reports.

“Normally what happens if they put a detainer on them, they wait until they’re tried in state court, for whatever the charge was, and then once that sentence comes down, if they’re going to let them go, put on probation or whatever it may be, then they’ll pick them up on the detainer,” Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said.

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Authorities did not release any details about the 14-year-old’s case, including possible charges, because he is a minor. Officials told WNCN the weapon was not fired or pointed any anyone at the school.

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Police petitioned to move the younger boy’s case to juvenile court.

“A magistrate set Castillo-Diaz’s bail at $5,000 and said that if it is posted, he has to be released into his mother’s custody and cannot go on Millbrook property except for a meeting with administrators,” the News & Observer reports. “Dias Quintanilla’s bail was set at $4,000, and she, too, was ordered to stay away from the school.”

WNCN reports the 17-year-olds were in ninth grade at Millbrook.

The move to deport the students comes less than a week after President Donald Trump signed executive orders to crack down on illegal immigration in the United States, and illegal immigrants who commit crimes in particular, The Hill reports.

In a speech on the issue Wednesday at the Department of Homeland Security, Trump emphasized the need to enforce the nation’s immigration laws to protect American citizens.

“This is a law enforcement agency,” Trump said to applause, “But for too long, your offices and agents haven’t been allowed to properly do their jobs.

“From here on out, I’m asking all of you to enforce the laws of the United States of America. They will be enforced and enforced strongly,” he said, according to The Hill.