Federal immigration enforcement agents were not at Cornell on Tuesday despite widespread alarm regarding a reported sighting, which spread while the University refused for hours to confirm that rumors shared on social media and by email were false.
“Earlier today, an independent contractor for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) arrived on the Ithaca campus to conduct a routine background check related to an individual’s application for a job with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” President Martha Pollack said in a statement.
This article originally appeared in the Cornell Daily Sun
