ICE agents have arrested another international student studying in the U.S., this time at the University of Minnesota, school officials said Friday.
The student has not been publicly identified, and their lawyers asked for privacy, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. School leaders said they were prevented by law from publicly releasing their identity.
The student was detained at an off-campus apartment and studying at Minnesota’s business school, the Carlson School of Management.
ICE has not publicly explained why the student was detained or provided their current location. Friday’s arrest was the latest in a series of detainments of international students in the U.S., many of whom have been shipped to ICE jails in Louisiana.
“We have any number of students studying here with visas, and we need answers,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz wrote on social media.
The high-profile arrests began in early March with the detainment of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. After Khalil’s arrest drew fierce criticism, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “We’re going to keep doing it.”
Last week, masked ICE agents in Boston arrested a Tufts University doctoral student, Rumeysa Ozturk, told her that her visa had been revoked and shipped her to a Louisiana jail. Both her and Khalil’s cases are still playing out in court.
Additionally, Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri and University of Alabama doctoral student Alireza Doroudi were arrested by immigration authorities in recent weeks.
