Leaders from the University of Minnesota said in a statement this week that an international graduate student is being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The school’s leadership said ICE had detained the student on March 27 at off-campus housing, describing the situation as “deeply concerning.” The graduate student is enrolled at the university’s Twin Cities campus business school.
ICE hasn’t said why it detained the student, and the agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.
University of Minnesota officials said the school is offering the student legal services and other support and that the school didn’t share information with federal agents, who didn’t provide them advance warning about the detention….