Columbia Flouted Its Own Policies and Let ICE Into University Buildings

Columbia Flouted Its Own Policies and Let ICE Into University Buildings

After Elmina “Ellie” Aghayeva, a neuroscience student, was taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from Columbia University housing, a story about ICE’s villainy quickly took hold. During the arrest, the school administration said, federal agents got into the building without a judicial warrant by telling a security guard that they were searching for a missing child. In publicizing the account, however, the university downplayed Columb…