WILLMAR, Minn. — A 19-year-old Willmar high school student who was detained last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been released, according to Police Chief Michael Holme. Suban Noor, who was arrested Monday, Jan. 12, was no longer listed on the Homeland Security Investigations website as in custody, Holme told the West Central Tribune early Friday afternoon. Shafia Abdullahi, cultural liaison with Willmar Public Schools, said Noor’s family spent the week wondering where she was being held, as she had not contacted her family as of Thursday afternoon. Noor is a student at Willmar Senior High School.English language learners who had their formal education interrupted can enroll in high school if they are 21 or younger at the beginning of the school year, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. Yasin Alsaidi, deputy director of Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, said Wednesday that Noor was likely taken to St. Paul after her arrest and that he was “willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that this person is soon to find themselves in Texas or Louisiana.”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. Alsaidi said Noor was likely arrested because of Operation PARRIS, “a sweeping initiative reexamining thousands of refugee cases through new background checks and intensive verification of refugee claims,” according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 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 Operation PARRIS, ICE is arresting and detaining immigrants who came here under the Biden administration on refugee status but do not yet have permanent resident status.He said organizations are trying to combat the detention of those being arrested through court actions.However, Alsaidi said, the number of arrests that have been made in Minnesota, as well as the nearly immediate transfer of the detainees to facilities outside 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,” he said. “I know there’s going to be immigration issues and whatnot, but this kind of stuff was not on my bingo card.” Jennifer Kotila is a reporter for West Central Tribune of Willmar, Minnesota. She focuses on local government, specifically the City of Willmar, and business. She can be reached via email at: jkotila@wctrib.com or phone at 320-295-6115.