WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A Purdue University student has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York as federal officials claim her visa expired two years ago.

According to Nexstar station partner PIX11, 20-year-old Yeonsoo Go was detained by ICE agents on July 31 after her visa hearing in Manhattan. The Department of Homeland Security said Go had allegedly overstayed her visa by two years, claiming she was unlawfully present in the United States.

PIX11 reports that Go first came to the United States four years ago on a religious visa with her mother, who is an Episcopal priest. Protestors soon gathered outside 26 Federal Plaza shortly after Go was detained.

Go was scheduled to appear before an immigration court judge in October before she was detained. She has since

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