By Nate Raymond

BOSTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – U.S. immigration authorities arrested a visiting professor at Harvard Law School this week after he pleaded guilty to discharging a pellet gun outside a Massachusetts synagogue the day before Yom Kippur, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.

Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a Brazilian citizen, was arrested on Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after his temporary nonimmigrant visa was revoked by the U.S. State Department following what President Donald Trump’s administration labeled an “anti-Semitic shooting incident” — a description at odds with how local authorities have described the case.

Gouvea, an associate professor at the University of Sao Paulo Law School who had taught at Harvard during the fall semester

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