College administrators impeded ICE arrest to protect registered sex offender student

An administrator for a small, private Minnesota college is accused of trying to prevent the arrest of a registered sex offender.

The offender, Augsburg University undergraduate student Jesus Saucedo-Portillo, is a criminal illegal alien whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was attempting to apprehend. At some point, the school’s administrator joined up with the security team to obstruct the arrest efforts, something the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) didn’t appreciate.

On December 6, ICE officers arrested Jesus Saucedo-Portillo, a criminal illegal alien while he was getting into his vehicle. He is a registered sex offender and has a previous arrest for driving while intoxicated.⁰⁰A university Administrator and campus security attempted to… https://t.co/Tyqz6PkOEz pic.twitter.com/7ftuCI6quO

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 8, 2025

“On December 6, ICE officers arrested Jesus Saucedo-Portillo, a criminal illegal alien, while he was getting into his vehicle. He is a registered sex offender and has a previous arrest for driving while intoxicated. A university Administrator and campus security attempted to obstruct the arrest,” reads a DHS post on X. “Our officers told the school Administrator and campus security that ICE had a warrant for the illegal alien’s arrest. The school Administrator told ICE officers they were violating university policies. Our officers informed them that federal law supersedes any University policy and that if campus security would not stop blocking the law enforcement vehicle from exiting, they would be obstructing justice. The school administrator continued her efforts to block the vehicle from leaving and ordered campus security to stand in front of the vehicle. Our officers followed their training to use the minimum amount of force necessary to clear the area and successfully arrested this criminal illegal alien.”

Augsburg University President Paul Pribbenow also denounced the arrest to Minnesota Public Radio, marking a shocking number of people willing to risk their reputations to protect a criminal alien with a disturbing arrest history.

“The thing I’m most proud of is that this is a community that has each other’s back,” Pribbenow said of the obstruction efforts. “I think we did everything right according to our protocols, and yet still have this intrusion.”

X users reacted:

You should change your policy and actively prosecute people who obstruct, rather than just continuing with apprehensions; ultimately safer for your officers and the public that way.

— Ryan Lackey (@octal) December 9, 2025

You guys are showing restraint far beyond what is legally or morally called for when it comes to criminal obstruction by people like those school apparachtiks

— GeroDoc (@doc_gero) December 9, 2025

I think the ‘minimum amount of force’ policy needs to be rethought. This chaos won’t stop until these forces face real consequences.

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) December 10, 2025

“A university Administrator and campus security attempted to obstruct the arrest.”
Why were they not arrested as well?

— p̅ͦ̐̀r̈̉͛̋oͣčeͮ̈́͛̿̒̒̓sͬ́͐̌s̾͑ͭ̂͛1͒ͤ̄ͥ3̃ͨ͗ͧ̾ (@process_13) December 9, 2025

DOJ must hold these obstructionists accountable. No deals, swiftly and harshly. DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL MIGRANTS no matter who they are
or WHERE THEY ARE HS!

— diana Brown (@dianaBr05339570) December 9, 2025

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