Ice says that a student visa from the University of Minnesota was revoked for driving in a state of drunkenness, and not protest

Minneapolis (AP) – A student graduated from the University of Minnesota who was Owned by immigration and customs application Was placed in police custody due to an offense of drunkenness driving, and not to be involved in demonstrations, federal officials announced on Monday.

“It is not linked to student demonstrations,” said Tricia McLaughlin, deputy secretary of the Ministry of Homeland Security, in a press release. “The individual in question was arrested after a revocation of the visa by the Department of the State linked to criminal history for a DUI.”

News from Student detention – and the lack of official explanation – has sparked manifestations of students and concerns of university and political leaders. Governor Tim Walz told journalists on Monday that he had spoken with internal security secretary Kristi Noem on Friday and was still waiting for more details.

Meanwhile, Minnesota State University Mankato officials said on Monday that one of their students was also owned by ice.

President Edward Inch said in a letter to the campus community that the student was arrested on Friday in a residence outside campus.

“No reason has been given. The university has received no information from the ice, and they asked us for no information,” wrote Inch. “I contacted our elected officials to share my concerns and ask for their help to stop this activity within our community of learners.”

The Mankato school did not appoint the student, nor gave nationality or the student’s field of studies. Ice did not immediately respond to a request for details on this case.

“It becomes a deeply worrying model, where Ice holds students with little or no explanations … and ignores their rights to regular procedure,” the American senator Tina Smith said in a statement. “I will continue to support the administration to obtain answers on these arrests and work to obtain answers from the federal immigration authorities about this case.”

The University of Minnesota did not appoint its student either.

This student, who was detained Thursday in a residence outside campus, was registered at the business school on the Minneapolis campus. University spokesperson Andria Waclawski said the school had no updates on Monday. She declared earlier than they followed the student’s example and respected their request for a privacy, while providing the student with legal aid and other support.

The governor said on Monday that “a deep concern is here that, whatever the situation, in this country, everyone has regular procedural rights and our concern is whether these rights to regular procedure are followed.”

President Donald Trump’s administration cited a rarely invoked status authorizing the Secretary of State to revoke non-citizens’ visas that could be considered a threat to the interests of foreign policy. More than half a dozen people Links with universities are known to have been placed in police custody or expelled in recent weeks. Most of these detainees have shown support for Palestinian causes during campus demonstrations against the War of Israel in Gaza.