ICE detained Kentucky State basketball participant from Senegal as she ready to journey to match

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky State University ladies’s basketball participant from Senegal was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement final month when she arrived on the airport in Louisville to fly to New York for a match.

Aminata Seck, 26, is from Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and her lawyer stated on social media that she is within the United States on a pupil visa.

Her lawyer, Sadiqa Reynolds, wrote that Seck was detained on Aug. 7 at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport, as she was planning to journey together with her group to an HBCU match.

The Louisville Courier Journal, which first reported Seck’s arrest, wrote that Reynolds stated Seck might have missed a pupil visa deadline as a result of she was having again surgical procedure, and that she additionally has an ACL damage.

Reynolds wrote that she spoke to Seck final week, and the participant remained in quite a lot of ache. Reynolds stated she was transferred to a number of detention amenities, then to a hospital.

ICE didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Wednesday on the rationale for her detention or the circumstances of her confinement.

Seck is listed on the Grayson County, Kentucky, Detention Center’s on-line inmate roster. The offense description says: “US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY / ICE.”

Democratic U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey, who represents a district together with Louisville, stated he’s monitoring Seck’s scenario, and that of others who’ve been arrested and detained in Kentucky.

“Aminata is a student-athlete who was arrested by ICE at the airport while traveling with her teammates,” he wrote in an announcement. “The Trump administration’s cruelty knows no bounds, but we will never let this become normal and we won’t stop fighting for her.”

Seck was named to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference All-Conference Third Team final season after she led the group with 11.7 factors and seven.3 rebounds. Seck, a 6-foot-4 heart, had 5 double-doubles final season and scored a season-high 30 factors vs. Lane College on Jan. 14.

Seck additionally was named the SIAC Women’s Basketball Elite 16 award winner. The Elite 16 award is the SIAC’s highest tutorial achievement honor and is offered to student-athletes who exhibit exemplary efficiency in athletics and the classroom.

The faculty declined to remark: “Out of respect for the privacy of those involved, Kentucky State University does not have information to share.”