A 20-year-old Purdue University student who was abducted by ICE on July 31 as she walked out of her visa hearing in a Manhattan courthouse was released on an ankle monitor on August 5, after being detained in Louisiana.

Although Yeonsoo Go’s visa is valid until December, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed it expired two years ago and called Go an “illegal alien from South Korea.” Go came to the United States in 2021, and lives with her mother, an Episcopal Church pastor, in Scarsdale, New York. Her arrest sparked widespread outrage from community members, faith leaders and local lawmakers , who helped secure her release.

After Go’s release, her mother told reporters , “There’s more who need the support.”

Cases like Go’s have become more and more commonplace sinc

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