Acting university president says agents misrepresented themselves to gain entry to the residential building
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A Columbia University student was arrested on Thursday by federal immigration officers who apparently misrepresented themselves by posing as New York police officers looking for a missing child in order to to gain entry to a residential building to make the apprehension.
The acting president of the elite institution in New York City, Claire Shipman, wrote in a statement sent to the wider Columbia community on Thursday that the university was working to gather more information on the incident earlier that morning.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/columbia-student-detained-federal-agents
Author : Alice Speri in New York
Publish date : 2026-02-26 19:09:00
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