Donggin Shin, a 37-year-old violinist who has played with the Utah Symphony, was being held in a Colorado detention center more than 500 miles from his home.
Around the country, programs offering in-state tuition rates to immigrants that once had wide bipartisan support increasingly have come under criticism from Republicans.
“The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced removal and incarceration,” one advocate said.