密苏里州立大学校园集会声援被ICE拘留员工保罗·埃塞尔：自10月7日起关押于格林县监狱，妻子珀尔到场发言
密苏里州格林县斯普林菲尔德市消息：多个社区组织10月28日在密苏里州立大学校园举行游行集会，声援该校被美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）拘留的员工保罗·埃塞尔（Paul Essel），呼吁校方领导层站出来发声。埃塞尔自10月7日起因ICE拘留令关押在格林县监狱。
埃塞尔是密苏里州立大学的拨款会计经理，2019年起任现职，原籍加纳。他与妻子珀尔（Pearl）育有三个孩子，十几岁的侄女也与他们同住。珀尔在卡林顿大楼前的集会上讲述了丈夫被捕后家庭的处境。参与组织包括全国有色人种协进会（NAACP）地方组织与南密苏里移民联盟等。
南密苏里移民联盟创办人多米尼克·摩尔是埃塞尔的邻居，她在集会上说，斯普林菲尔德地区虽没有明尼阿波利斯那样的大规模突袭，但人们仍在被拘留；「二十个月已经够久了」。据校方此前声明，埃塞尔2008至2014年间在该校取得两个研究生学位，读书期间即开始在校工作，至今一直是表现良好的员工；校方表示其聘用遵循正常程序与联邦规定，包括背景审查与工作资格核验。埃塞尔目前被安排带薪行政休假。
来源：GSM·美国
Missouri State Rally Backs Staffer Paul Essel, Held on ICE Detainer at Greene County Jail Since Oct. 7
SPRINGFIELD, Greene County, Missouri — Several area organizations marched and rallied at Missouri State University on Oct. 28 in support of Paul Essel, a university employee detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), calling on university leadership to stand up. Essel, the university's grants accounting manager, has been held at the Greene County Jail on an ICE detainer since Oct. 7.
Essel, originally from Ghana, has been grants accounting manager since 2019. He and his wife Pearl have three children, and their teenage nieces live with them. Pearl spoke at the rally in front of Carrington Hall about what the family has faced since his arrest. Groups taking part included the local NAACP and the Southern Missouri Immigration Alliance (SMIA).
SMIA founder Dominique Moore, Essel's neighbor, said that although Springfield has not seen large raids like those in Minneapolis, people are still being detained: "Twenty months is long enough for the immigration crackdown that has been happening." The university has said Essel earned two graduate degrees at Missouri State between 2008 and 2014, began working there as a student and has remained an employee in good standing; it said his hiring followed standard procedures and federal requirements, including a background check and work-eligibility verification. Essel has been placed on paid administrative leave.
Source: GSM·USA
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
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