A professor in Michigan has been fired in the wake of his arrest by federal immigration officials, who called him a “criminal illegal alien sex offender.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Ferris State University marketing professor Sumith Gunasekera on Nov. 12, listing a series of convictions and crimes in a Nov. 25 press release.
Mr. Gunasekera came from Sri Lanka, an island nation south of India.
According to ICE, police in the Canadian province of Ontario arrested Mr. Gunasekera twice in 1998, for making death threats and sexual misconduct.
As Campus Reform explains,
Gunasekera told police that the sexual offense charge involved a minor.
He was later convicted by an Ontario court of “utter threat to cause death or bodily harm and sexual interference.”
In 2004, after Gunasekera moved to the United States on a student visa, a Las Vegas court convicted him of “disorderly conduct,” after he was arrested for “open and gross lewdness.”…
“Professor Gunasekera is no longer with Ferris State University,” university spokesman Dave Murray told Campus Reform on Monday. “It would be inappropriate to discuss a personnel issue.”
