A federal lawsuit alleges that the Department of Homeland Security unlawfully terminated a University of Minnesota student’s legal status and violated his due process rights by detaining him without charging him with an immigration violation.
The lawsuit filed by Doğukan Günaydın, 28, asks a federal judge to order his release from custody and reinstate his legal student status.
Günaydın, a STEM MBA student at the U’s Carlson School of Management, “feared he was being kidnapped” last Thursday when plain-clothed officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wearing hooded sweatshirts surrounded him and handcuffed him outside his St. Paul home, while he was on his way to class. Records show Günaydın is currently being detained in the Sherburne County Jail, which contracts with ICE to hold their detainees…