By Doha Madani, Chloe Atkins, Brittany Kubicko and Phil Helsel A Columbia University student was detained Thursday morning by immigration agents who misrepresented themselves by saying they were looking for a missing child to get access to a residential building, the university’s top administrator said. Elmina Aghayeva, who is from Azerbaijan, was later released, but the school’s acting president, Claire Shipman, and others condemned the agents’ actions in the alleged 6 a.m. incident in an off-campus Columbia building. “This was a frightening and fast-moving situation and utterly unacceptable for our students and staff,” Shipman said in a statement. The Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and
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