axel herrera is a senior at riverside high school in durham, north carolina.din acosta was a student at the same school. and paromita shah is the associate director of the national immigration project of the national lawyers guild. welcome to democracy now! paromita shah, talk about what happened on the day that wildin was picked up. where was he and what are the grounds for him being imprisoned from january right through now? we're talking, what, five months? >> the story began a couple of years ago when wildin commended the country as a minor. froms fleeing persecution honduras and he came into the united states. he was detained by customs and border patrol and eventually he finally made his way to his mother and his family in north carolina where he explored how he could apply for asylum. but, you know, in north carolina and georgia, these cases are extremely difficult to make. judges have a terribly low grant rate. something beyond anything else in the country, 1%. and he just did not do the asylum case. he took an order of deportation. after that, ice age