This weekend ICE detained a student at a private college in Minneapolis [View all]

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on the college's private property, a parking lot, without a warrant even though one was demanded.

While ICE has authority to detain individuals in public spaces, Augsburg is a private university where agents cannot enter or make arrests without a judicial warrant. The parking lot, though ungated, is likewise private university property.

“It was done on private property, without a warrant,” Pribbenow said. “From our perspective, that is illegal.”

Staff from Augsburg’s Department of Public Safety and residence life responded and immediately requested a judicial warrant, Provost Paula O’Loughlin wrote in a campuswide email Saturday evening.

Additional agents soon arrived, “pointing weapons at the crowd and pushing witnesses back” as students recorded the scene, she said. When a senior administrator again asked for a judicial warrant, agents refused, saying they did not have one.

https://www.startribune.com/augsburg-president-decries-illegal-ice-detention-of-a-student-on-private-campus/601540404