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Tufts student detained by ICE in Louisiana meets with 3 Massachusetts lawmakers
Three Massachusetts lawmakers have returned from Louisiana, where they met with a Tufts student being detained by ICE at a detention center, and said they will continue to fight for her release from prison.
Federal judge orders Tufts University graduate student detained by ICE returned to Vermont
A federal judge ruled on Friday that detained Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk must be moved from Louisiana to Vermont no later than May 1, to have her case heard in the District of Vermont.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University grad student, was detained by masked ICE agents
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Ozturk, a Turkish national, of "activities in support of Hamas."
Tufts University declares support for student detained by ICE, seeks immediate release
Tufts University is seeking the release of international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody by federal agents.
Mass. lawmakers take Louisiana
The trip, Pressley said during a press conference outside the South Louisiana Correctional Center Tuesday night, was a way to “conduct some real time oversight” of the administration’s immigration practice.
Mass. lawmakers decry ‘harrowing’ conditions at ICE facility where Tufts student is being held
The officials met with Rümeysa Öztürk, who has been collecting the stories of her fellow detainees. The post Mass. lawmakers decry ‘harrowing’ conditions at ICE facility where Tufts student is being held appeared first on Boston.
‘I’m afraid that something will happen to me.’ Detained Tufts student visited in Louisiana by Mass. lawmakers.
At a press conference Tuesday, Senator Ed Markey and Representative Ayanna Pressley harshly condemned the treatment of Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts University, and other detainees.
Congressional Democrats meet with detained university students in Louisiana
The students were detained under a seldom-used provision that allows the secretary of state to deport noncitizens they deem a threat to U.S. foreign policy.
3 Massachusetts Congress members visit Louisiana ICE facility holding Tufts student
In a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and ICE acting Director Todd Lyons, the lawmakers demanded answers and raised questions about the fairness of the immigration enforcement system,
Federal government appeals judge's order to move detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to Vermont
The Justice Department filed an appeal of the judge's order on Tuesday and asked U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III to pause Öztürk's transfer while it appeals. Sessions ruled Friday that Öztürk,
Mass. lawmakers tour Louisiana ICE facility where Tufts student is detained; demand answers
We’re in Louisiana to demand answers, shine a light on this damning violation of their constitutional rights, and call for their immediate release."
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Tufts University student taken into immigration custody by federal agents in Massachusetts
A Tufts University international graduate student was taken into custody by federal authorities in Massachusetts Tuesday evening. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security ...
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Judge rejects federal government’s attempt to halt detained Tufts student’s return to Vermont
Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish PhD student being held by federal immigration authorities in Louisiana, was taken into custody by masked federal agents in plainclothes late last month.
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Tufts Graduate Student Taken Into ICE Custody
Federal immigration authorities ... was transferred to Louisiana.) Tufts president Sunil Kumar wrote in a message to students and staff Tuesday night that the university received reports that a ...
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Immigration judge denies bond for Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk
Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts graduate student who was arrested by ICE on a Somerville sidewalk last month, was denied bond ...
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Federal government appeals ruling ordering detained Tufts student’s return to Vermont
Judge William K. Sessions III, presiding in the case in federal court in Burlington, had ruled Friday that Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred from a federal immigration detention center in Louisiana to a ...
Vermont judge raises specter of ‘constitutional crisis’ in Tufts student immigration case
Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested in Somerville by masked immigration agents on March 25 and is being held in a Louisiana detention ...