Hancock High brothers detained by ICE set to return home to Diamondhead
HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- Hancock High students Israel and Max Makoka are coming home to Diamondhead after being detained by ICE.
Their host mother, Gail Baptiste, confirmed the news to us this afternoon.
The brothers were taken into ICE custody on April 21 while waiting for the school bus that morning.
According to ICE, the brothers violated their student visas by failing to attend classes at Piney Woods School, which they were attending in Rankin County before transferring to Hancock High in the Kiln.
