Professor visiting Harvard arrested by ICE agrees to leave country

"Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Brazilian citizen, was arrested on Wednesday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after his temporary nonimmigrant visa was revoked by the state department following what the Trump administration labeled an anti-semitic shooting incident a description at odds with how local authorities have described the case. Gouvea, an associate professor at the University of Sao Paulo law school who had taught at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the fall semester, had agreed to leave the country, the DHS said."

"Gouvea's arrest came as the Trump administration pressed Harvard to reach a deal to resolve a litany of allegations it has made against the Ivy League institution, including that the university had not done enough to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish students on campus. Harvard has sued over some of the actions the administration has taken against it, leading a judge to rule in September that the administration unlawfully terminated more than $2bn in research grants awarded to the university."

Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Brazilian associate professor who taught at Harvard Law School during the fall semester, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the State Department revoked his temporary nonimmigrant visa. The arrest followed charges that he discharged a pellet gun outside Temple Beth Zion near Brookline, Massachusetts, on the eve of Yom Kippur; Gouvea told police he was using the pellet gun to hunt rats. ICE said he agreed to leave the country and returned to Brazil after being offered voluntary departure. The arrest occurred amid the Trump administration's disputes and actions against Harvard over alleged antisemitism and revoked research grants.

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