A Boston University student is at the center of a growing controversy after admitting he repeatedly called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on employees at a local Allston car wash, resulting in nine legal workers being detained on Nov. 4.

Zac Segal, president of the university’s College Republicans, posted on X that he had been contacting ICE “for months on end” and framed the recent detentions as a response to his activism. In his posts, he wrote: “As someone who lives in the neighborhood, I’ve seen how American jobs are being given away to those with no right to be here. Pump up the numbers.”

The posts (and the raid itself) quickly drew intense scrutiny, both on campus and online. Students, faculty and community members criticized Segal, arguing that many of the detained worke

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