U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has transferred Fatima Ameaka, a public health researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to a detention facility in Louisiana, according to a government website that tracks those detained by ICE.
Agents from federal agency arrested Ameaka, who is originally from Cameroon, for allegedly overstaying a visa on July 28 at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
As of Friday morning, she was being held in the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center, located roughly 90 miles outside of Baton Rouge.
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