Readers may recall the case of the the rat-hunting Harvard Law School professor and gun-control activist arrested for firing a pellet gun outside a Brookline synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur. I wrote about it in “Hunting rats in Brookline” and in “Green hills of Brookline.” The hunter was Professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea. He has now agreed to self-deport. I doubted the veracity of of Professor Gouvea’s denials that he was doing what he was obviouly doing. The Washington Free Beacon reports in its morning newsletter:
Gouvea’s pellet shooting spree prompted the State Department to revoke his temporary visa on Oct. 16 and he was arrested by ICE. He volunteered to leave the United States rather than risk a deportation. “We are under zero obligation to admit foreigners who commit these inexplicably reprehensible acts or to let them stay here,” DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said.
The ordeal brings an end to Gouvea’s long stretch of work at elite American institutions. He came from the Law School of the University of São Paulo—where he led the Diversity and Inclusion Committee—and spent time at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and, of course, Harvard. He is also a founding member of the Instituto Sou da Paz, a Soros-funded Brazilian think tank that played a leading role in pushing the nation’s 2003 gun-control act. Good riddance!
Jessica Schwalb has the rest of the story in “‘Rat Hunting’ Harvard Law Professor Agrees to Self-Deport After Firing Pellet Gun Near Synagogue During Yom Kippur.”
