Students and staff are on high alert across Arizona State University (ASU) campuses following the detainment of a school employee at the ASU Tempe campus on Sept. 16.
According to a statement published on the ASU website on Sept. 18, the detainment, which was caught on camera and posted to social media, took place after an ASU police officer arranged a meeting with the unidentified ASU employee. At that meeting, a plainclothes Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigator later handcuffed the employee before relocating him for questioning somewhere “off-campus.”
According to an additional statement provided to CALÓ News from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) acting Special Agent-in-charge Ray Rede said there was an anonymous complaint of a threat made towards President Donald Trump. Amid the heightened security efforts prior to the memorial service of assassinated Turning Point USA CEO and far-right, conservative commentator Charlie Kirk — which took place last weekend at State Farm Stadium in Glendale — HSI identified and detained a suspect they claimed to be “a nonimmigrant alien,” an unofficial term for foreign nationals who are admitted into the country on a temporary status, which typically includes students, tourists, workers and investors…