A state representative from Norman has posted on social media that ICE detained a professor from the University of Oklahoma. Jacob Rosecrants says Dr. Vahid Abedini was here legally on an H1-B visa.

A fellow OU professor also posted on social media that Abedini was taken into custody while boarding a flight to Washington, D.C. on Nov. 22.

2 News reached out to the Logan County Sheriff's Office, which says a Vahid Abedini was brought to its detention center, but he was transported to the ICE office in Oklahoma City. We reached out to the university for confirmation regarding the detention of a professor, and they said, "They do not have a comment."

2 News has also reached out to senators James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin, as well as representative Tom Cole, for their responses to the s

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