WILLMAR — The 19-year-old woman who was arrested Monday, Jan. 12, in Willmar by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been released, according to Willmar Police Chief Michael Holme. Holme informed the West Central Tribune early Friday afternoon that the Homeland Security Investigations website shows that Suban Noor is no longer in custody. Noor’s family spent the week wondering where she was being held, as she had not contacted her family as of Thursday afternoon, according to Shafia Abdullahi, cultural liaison with Willmar Public Schools. Noor is a Willmar Senior High School student.Children who are English language learners who had their formal education interrupted are eligible to enroll in high school if they are 21 years old or younger at the beginning of the school year, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. The West Central Tribune on Wednesday spoke with Yasin Alsaidi, deputy director of Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, who said that Noor was likely taken to St. Paul after her arrest and that he is “willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that this person is soon to find themselves in Texas or Louisiana,” which is where the Department of Homeland Security is sending ICE detainees from Minnesota. It has not been confirmed where she was held. Noor was arrested Monday and dragged into an ICE agent’s vehicle in downtown Willmar while attempting to pick up food for her family after driving home from school and then dropping her mother off at work, according to previous reporting by the West Central Tribune. “Today, I watched as ICE agents swarmed the street … cornering a 19-year old Somali girl in her car. She rolled down her window, brows confused, before being ambushed,” eyewitness Christina Vander Pol wrote on her Facebook page. “She was cuffed and roughly swung with her hands tied behind her, crying out, before being shoved, barefoot, into the back of a vehicle.”Vander Pol noted that Noor’s car was abandoned with the door still standing open, her Walmart employee name tag still pinned to her work vest. Her credit and bank cards were strewn across the passenger seat next to her cellphone. Her backpack lay unzipped, filled with school supplies and books. Vander Pol also shared in the same Facebook post that just the day before the arrest, she was a part of a group of community members who had gathered to inform the Somali community about their constitutional rights.“When it was realized that about 10 of us had come as guests to support them, someone left and returned with cups of hot chai, which were presented with hospitality,” Vander Pol wrote. “Though it seemed everyone in the room was a U.S. citizen, the fear was palpable and people held hands and leaned on one another for support. Others kept checking the locked front door with their eyes. … My heart broke for the community of men and women gathered in that space. And it broke for myself, when I dared to imagine my life without them as my neighbors.”There is no evidence that Noor did anything criminal to be arrested by ICE, and Alsaidi said she was likely arrested because of Operation PARRIS. Operation PARRIS is “a sweeping initiative reexamining thousands of refugee cases through new background checks and intensive verification of refugee claims” that was announced on Jan. 9, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “The initial focus is on Minnesota’s 5,600 refugees who have not yet been given lawful permanent resident status,” the announcement stated. “(United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’) newly established vetting center is leading Operation PARRIS (Post-Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening), with adjudicators conducting thorough background checks, reinterviews and merit reviews of refugee claims.”Refugees who have been in the U.S. for at least one year are eligible to apply for permanent resident status, also known as a Green Card, according to Alsaidi. Noor and her family had just completed the application process to get their Green Cards, according to Abdullahi, the cultural liaison at the school. Alsaidi explained that, rather than conducting interviews for the operation, ICE is instead arresting and detaining immigrants who came here under the Biden administration on refugee status but do not yet have permanent resident status. Alsaidi confirmed that ICE knows exactly where to find the refugee and asylum seekers because U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has all of their information. He said a lot of organizations are currently trying to combat the detention of those being arrested through court action.However, since Operation PARRIS has commenced, not enough time has passed for the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor to properly advise immigration prosecutors on how to respond to attorneys representing the detained refugee and asylum seekers, according to Alsaidi.The sheer number of arrests that have been made in Minnesota, as well as the nearly immediate transfer of the detainees to facilities outside of the state, is making it extremely difficult for legal organizations to help refugees and asylum seekers who are being detained.“This was not on my bingo card,” Alsaidi said. “I know there's going to be immigration issues and whatnot, but this kind of stuff was not on my bingo card.”When asked if he had any advice for immigrants here on refugee or asylum status, Alsaidi responded: “This pains me. Keep a low profile. Make sure most of your presence is in a place where there’s an expectation of privacy so you can assert your rights for a judicial warrant.”