The American Thinker brings you this sob story today on a “model student” who may miss his high school graduation because he’s locked up at a local facility.

The poor child is locked up in a detention facility.

The New York Times drops the pertinent information until several paragraphs into the story.

Dennis Rivera-Sarmento pushed a girl down and beat the hell out her at school.

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As Dennis Rivera-Sarmiento sat in a detention center 80 miles away from his Texas home this past winter, clad in a blue inmate uniform, he could see his high school diploma slipping further from his reach. Graduation was in June, but a schoolyard scuffle with a girl who he said had called him a racial epithet had gotten him arrested by his high school’s police officer. Then a state law that required the Harris County Sheriff’s Office to cooperate with federal immigration officers flagged him for deportation, back to his native Honduras, from which he and his family had fled five years ago. The case of the “quiet kid who was good at soccer” hauled from high school to a deportation center turned Mr. Rivera-Sarmiento into a cause célèbre in Houston[.] … Students in the Stephen F. Austin High School community, where 93 percent of students are Hispanic, argued that Mr. Rivera-Sarmiento was also a victim[.]

The LA Times reported: