Harvard professor detained by ICE after Boston synagogue shooting, agrees to voluntarily leave US

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) connected Wednesday announced ICE had detained a Harvard Law School prof accused successful a shooting extracurricular a synagogue successful October. 

Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Brazilian national, was arrested Oct. 2, aft helium allegedly fired a BB weapon extracurricular a Boston country synagogue the time earlier Yom Kippur. 

Gouvea told authorities astatine the clip helium was "hunting rats." 

He pleaded blameworthy Nov. 13 to amerciable usage of the aerial rifle, portion his different charges of disturbing the peace, disorderly behaviour and vandalizing spot were dismissed.

Harvard University suspended the prof pending the investigation. (Associated Press)

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The Harvard Crimson archetypal reported Gouvea was suspended by the assemblage pending the investigation, with synagogue leaders noting successful an email the shooting was not "fueled by antisemitism."

Two weeks aft the shooting, the Department of State revoked his impermanent non-immigrant (J-1) visa.

ICE Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested Gouvea connected Wednesday, and helium agreed to voluntarily permission the U.S., alternatively than beryllium deported, according to DHS.

Harvard Law visiting prof Carlos Portugal Gouvea was detained by ICE connected Wednesday. (Getty Images)

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"It is simply a privilege to enactment and survey successful the United States, not a right," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote successful a statement. "There is nary country successful the United States for brazen, convulsive acts of anti-Semitism similar this. They are an affront to our halfway principals arsenic a state and an unacceptable menace against law-abiding American citizens."

McLaughlin added DHS is "under zero work to admit foreigners who perpetrate these inexplicably reprehensible acts oregon to fto them enactment here."

There were conflicting reports astir the motive of the shooting, which allegedly took spot extracurricular a synagogue. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

"Secretary [Kristi] Noem has made it wide that anyone who thinks they tin travel to America and perpetrate anti-American and anti-Semitic unit and coercion should deliberation again," she wrote. "You are not invited here."

Gouvea was a visiting prof of instrumentality astatine Harvard, with his full-time presumption being an subordinate prof astatine the University of São Paulo Law School and CEO of IDGlobal successful Brazil.

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The assemblage website noted helium led probe that shaped large Brazilian Supreme Court decisions, documented unit against Indigenous peoples, and participated connected the boards of respective Brazilian companies, including the Fulbright Commission, Brazilian Students Organization, Generation and Sempre SanFran.

Harvard did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.