Port St. Lucie High School senior Emmanuel Nelson, an 18-year-old football player, has been held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since late August after a traffic stop for speeding through a school zone put him on federal immigration enforcement's radar. Nelson was stopped on Southeast Lennard Road near Southeast Grand

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