Student of the University of Minnesota held by immigration agents
Immigration agents and US customs arrested a graduate student who attended the University of Minnesota at the beginning of this week, the school declared on Friday in a declaration that defined the “deeply worrying” situation.
The student was taken in custody on Thursday in a residence outside the campus, the president of the school, Rebecca Cunningham, said in the declaration.
“The university did not have a preliminary knowledge of this accident and did not share any information with the federal authorities before it occurs,” says the declaration.
The university did not identify the name, nationality or type of visa of the student. Jake Ricker, a spokesman for the University, said the student was enrolled in the Carlson School of Management.
Ice officials did not immediately respond to a request for information on the case.
The arrest follows other accidents in which Students or international scholars aimed at ice in American universities. Three students involved at Columbia University. The other individuals Ice detained or have tried to arrest have attended Brown, TuftsCornell and Alabama University.
Another case that has attracted the coast of the supporters of civil freedoms involved Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States and a recent graduate at Columbia University who revoked his green card.
A common factor in some of these cases was the involvement of students in protests or in the Filo-Palestinian writings last year.
Mr. Khalil, born in Syria from Palestinian refugees and who is married to an American citizen, The efforts of the government is fighting in the federal court to deport it.
The secretary of state Marco Rubio told journalists aboard his plane on Thursday that US officials “would have made a mistake on the side of caution” in the weighing of the revocations of the visas.
“Do not import activists in the United States,” said Rubio. “I’m here to study. I’m here to go to the classroom. I’m not here to guide the movements of disruptive activists and undermine universities.
While Thursday’s arrest was the first action of application of the publicly known immigration that involves a student of the University of Minnesota, the Trump administration reported weeks ago that it was examining the college.
The Department of Justice announced last month That Minnesota was among the 10 schools that investigators would visit to determine if “had not been able to protect Jewish students and members of the faculty from illegal discrimination”.
The Twin Cities campus – the flagship of the five minnesota campus – was in a list of 60 colleges that the Department of Education warned that this month they were at risk of “potential application actions” due to the accusations of anti -Semitism.
Minnesota, who was among the main universities that had a Fillestinese protest camp last spring, faced more than a year with concerns about the speech on the campus.
Two weeks ago the Declared the Board of Regents of the University That Minnesota should widely refrain from making official statements on “public concern issues or public interest”.
The best elected officials of the State said on Friday evening who were waiting for more details on Thursday’s arrest, but some reported the alarm.
“Our campus should be a safe place for all students, the staff and visitors,” said the Senator of the state Doron Clark in a note. “We must oppose the senseless demorization of the Trump Administration of our friends, family and neighbors.”
