{"id":261,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/261","headline":"Mississippi Valley State basketball player detained by ICE","dek":"Qingfang Pang, a junior power forward from China, was taken into custody on Sept. 29 while traveling to his visa sponsor in New York.","body":"Qingfang Pang, a 6-foot-9 junior power forward on the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils, is in ICE custody at the Richwood Correctional Center in Richwood, Louisiana. Pang, who is from China and listed Queens, New York as his hometown on the school's official roster, was detained on Sept. 29 for overstaying his visa.\n\nAccording to his Houston-based attorney, Marcus Session, Pang was taken into custody while trying to fly from Jackson, Mississippi, to New York, where he was headed to be with his visa sponsor, a family friend, to sort out the issue. Session told Front Office Sports that Pang had recently learned from the university that his student visa had expired.\n\nMississippi Valley State said in a statement that it is aware of the situation and is \"deeply concerned for the student's well-being.\" The school added that university officials are closely monitoring the situation and are committed to providing appropriate support as circumstances develop.\n\nPang recently transferred to Mississippi Valley State from Monroe University in New York.","published_at":"2026-10-08T20:29:03.514505+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Mississippi Valley State men's basketball player detained by ICE over visa issue","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mississippi-valley-state-mens-basketball-151526404.html"},{"outlet":"Front Office Sports","publisher":"Front Office Sports","title":"ICE Has Detained Another College Basketball Player","url":"https://frontofficesports.com/article/ice-college-basketball-qingfang-pang-detention/"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Mississippi Valley State men's basketball player detained by ICE","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7672267/2026/10/08/mvsu-basketball-ice-detained-qingfang-pang/"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Mississippi Valley State basketball player Qingfang Pang detained by ICE over visa issue","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/mississippi-valley-state-basketball-player-qingfang-pang-detained-by-ice/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"ICE Has Detained Another College Basketball Player","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ice-detained-another-college-basketball-165803880.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Another HBCU basketball player detained by ICE","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/another-hbcu-basketball-player-detained-194156320.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"College basketball player detained by ICE","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/college-basketball-player-detained-ice-200627790.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"ICE detains Mississippi Valley State men's basketball player over visa","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ice-detains-mississippi-valley-state-151526404.html"}],"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}