Columbia University says US immigration agents lied to detain student

Kit Johnson blogged about this event yesterday. Here is an update:

Columbia University said that U.S. immigration enforcement agents “made misrepresentations” to gain access to one of the school’s residential buildings to detain a student.

Columbia University’s acting president yesterday said federal agents entered the building at about 6:30 a.m. “Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person’,” she said. “We are working to gather more details.”

She added that “all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring [identification badge] swipe access."

“An administrative warrant is not sufficient,” she said.