A visiting Harvard law professor from Brazil, whose visa was revoked after he was arrested in the fall for firing a BB gun near a Brookline synagogue, has again been arrested by immigration agents.

Carlos Portugal Gouvea was arrested Thursday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with Boston’s enforcement and removal operation, federal officials said.

As a result, Gouvea, a lawyer from Brazil, has agreed to leave the country of his own accord rather than be deported, according to a statement issued Friday by the US Department of Homeland Security.

“It is a privilege to work and study in the United States, not a right,” the department’s assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement. “There is no room in the United States for brazen, violent acts of antisemitism

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