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ICE Detains Visiting Harvard Law Professor Who Will Voluntarily Leave the U.S.

The action followed a visa revocation after he pleaded guilty to firing a BB gun near a Brookline synagogue as local officials reported no evidence of antisemitic intent.

Harvard Professor Taken Into Custody, Agrees to Leave U.S. After Firing BB Gun Outside Boston Synagogue
An agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) waits in a hallway outside of a courtroom at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York on July 17, 2025.
A sign hangs on a gate of a building at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., July 6, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
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Overview

  • ICE’s Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested Carlos Portugal Gouvea this week after the State Department revoked his J‑1 visa.
  • The Brazilian scholar pleaded guilty on Nov. 13 to illegal use of an air rifle in the Oct. 1–2 incident near Temple Beth Zion, and he received six months of pretrial probation as other charges were dismissed.
  • DHS said Gouvea agreed to voluntarily depart the United States rather than face deportation.
  • DHS described the episode as an anti‑Semitic shooting, while Brookline police and Temple Beth Zion said they saw no evidence of bias and no hate crime charges were filed.
  • The shots prompted a lockdown at the synagogue and a pellet shattered a parked car’s window, according to reports.