A Deering High School soccer player and his family were detained by immigration agents in November after being denied asylum in Canada and returned to the U.S. Attorney Todd Pomerleau secured the release of the student and two family members after a federal appeals court paused their deportation while their asylum case continues. His sister remains in detention. He returned to Portland last week and has resumed playing in the Kennedy Park soccer league, where friends and teammates had raised money for his family's legal fees.