Campus outrage. Demonstrators at the University of Minnesota protest the arrest of graduate student Doğukan Günaydin. He was taken by federal agents without explanation ad hauled away in cuffs. Image: Aaron Nesheim
Why the arest? Where’d they take him?
MNNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota student who was ambushed by federal immigration agents Thursday and hauled away was 28-year-old Doğukan Günaydin, friends said. His whereabouts in federal custody were unknown because ICE agency operate secretary without any local accountability. Günaydin was taken on a sidewalk outside his St. Paul residence. Friends said he was a Turkish citizen with a student visa. He was a Turkish citizen with a U.S. student visa. He was a graduate of St. Olaf College in Northfield and was pursuing an advanced degree at the University of Minnesota’s prestigious Carlton Graduate School of Business. Friends were baffled at the arrest. Günaydin had no idea that ICE agents had secretly staked out his residence and laid in wait for him, they said,. There have been similar arrests at other campuses, including that of a female student at Tufts who had written an opinion piece in the campus newspaper that President Donald Trump regarded as antisemitic. Günaydin’s friends at the University of Minnesota described him as apolitical. By the Trump administration’s own accounting, there have been 32,800 arrests of foreign nationals, most with visas, in the past 10 weeks. Trump has described the arrests as necessary to rid the nation of foreign murderers, rapists and drug-peddlers.
Günaydin. In his undergraduate days at St. Olaf.