Tufts officials call for ICE to release grad student
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Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish national and Tufts University doctoral candidate who was arrested by ICE on March 25 and whisked off to a Louisiana detention facility.
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Tufts University is calling on ICE to release international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk as the case goes before a federal judge in Boston Thursday afternoon.
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Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish student detained by immigration officers in Boston last month, was moved across multiple state lines as part of a “highly unusual” and “secretive” attempt to keep her from accessing her attorney or being near her home,
A federal judge in Boston heard arguments Thursday afternoon on whether a legal challenge to the detention of a Tufts University student should remain in Massachusetts.
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of hundreds of foreign students. Tufts University is pushing back, a court declaration shows.
Media outlets offered 10 times more coverage of a Turkish student who was arrested for allegedly supporting terrorism than the capture of an alleged MS-13 gang leader.
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