Former Syracuse University basketball player John Bol Ajak has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
“It was just overwhelmingly sad when I heard he got taken,” former Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim told Syracuse.com on Thursday, March 5. “They’re taking good people out of our country.”
Ajak, 26, played for Syracuse from 2020 to 2023 — when Boeheim coached — and was with the team during its 2021 Sweet 16 run in the March Madness tournament, although he only played in one game.
The former collegiate athlete was arrested in Syracuse, New York, where he lives, and wa...
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