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Local, state and national leaders require responses from the application of immigration after the detention of another university student.
The University of Minnesota said that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested an international graduate student on Thursday, according to a letter to the school community published on Friday.
The student, registered on the Twin Cities campus, was detained in a residence outside campus and the school is actively working to collect more details, according to the letter of school officials.
Many questions remain unanswered: we do not know what the student was accused, what is his immigration status or where they were detained.
The university did not identify the student, but called on his arrest “a deeply worrying situation” in the letter.
A university spokesperson refused to provide additional comments due to the “confidentiality obligations towards students under the federal and federal law”.
The detention comes while several foreign nationals affiliated with prestigious American universities were arrested in the midst of the repression of immigration from the Trump administration. The series of arrests and expulsion procedures that the Trump administration brought against students and academics has sent shock to the university community and raised concerns about the protection of freedom of expression.
We do not know where the student of the University of Minnesota takes place, but a delayed communication of the ice at the place where the students are located in other cases this month. Like the student at the University of Minnesota, many were detained near their home.
Mahmoud Khalil, A Palestinian activist from Columbia University was detained outside his apartment in New York, taken to the New Jersey and then transported to Louisiana. “I had the impression that Mahmoud had been kidnapped from our house, and no one could tell me where he was or what was happening to him,” said his wife Noor Abdalla in a statement.
Khan Suri, an Indian national in the United States for doctoral research at the University of Georgetown, was detained by ice officials in Chantilly, Virginia, and sent to a temporary detention center in Louisiana before being transferred to the Prairieland detention center in Texas. “The ice agents came overnight, took him captive, preventing him from his wife and children, and transported him to an unknown place before transferring him to an ice detention center in Louisiana, far from his family and lawyers,” said lawyer nermetu.
The doctoral student at TUFTS University, Rumeysa Ozturk, was taken near her home in the Massachusetts, but finally found himself in Louisiana. Her friends, family and lawyers have remained unable to locate or contact her for about 24 hours after her arrest, said a modified Habeas Corpus petition.
The Department of Internal Security refused to comment on the case of the University of Minnesota, recovering from the ice, which did not immediately respond to the request for CNN comments.
An detained student’s lawyer refused to comment CNN, saying that it is a “very sensitive situation” and that he wants to protect their client’s privacy. The lawyer said that she was in contact with her client, but it is not known how long it had taken her to reach the student after their detention.
Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar said that in an article on X, she and her office were in contact with the university and did “our best to obtain information on this subject”.
The school had no prior knowledge of the detention of their pupil and did not share any information with the federal authorities before it occurred, declared the letter to the school community, signed by the president of Rebecca Cunningham, vice-president of student business Calvin Phillips and vice-president for the actions and diversity Mercedes Ramírez Fernández.
“It is important to note that our public security departments on the campus, including the UPPD, do not apply the federal immigration laws and that our officers do not inquire about the immigration status of an individual,” said the press release.
The silence of the ice on detention aroused urgent issues from the state authorities and local officials.
“I have just spoken with Homeland Security to get more information and I will share when I learn more,” published more the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz.
The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, posted on X: “The recent detention of a student from the U of M is deeply disturbing. Educational environments must be places where all students can focus on fear -free learning and growth. I am in contact with the U and on the follow -up of the situation. ”
“What marked me was the lack of information,” said Minnesota Democratic Senator, Doron Clark, the Affilié de CNN, Kare. “We do not know where the student is, we do not know the name of the student, we simply do not know what happened … The only way we discovered was not of the federal government … I think that the blindness of what is going on is exasperating, and it is frightening,” said Clark, who represents parts of the university zone, told Kare.
“We need a quick response of leaders at all levels on what we can do to protect everyone in our community,” said the Democratic State Senator Omar Fateh, on social networks.
