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Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that the U.S. had revoked her student visa, linking her case to the administration’s ongoing crackdown on student activism and implying she is a protester.
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A Tufts University doctoral student who was detained this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order, a federal judge in Massachusetts said on Friday.
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Her friends and professors said that characterization did not square with what they knew of Ms. Ozturk.
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Ozturk was suddenly arrested by plainclothes federal agents Tuesday in an incident captured by a surveillance camera.
Rumeysa Ozturk’s legal team, which now includes the ACLU, has filed an amended habeas petition in Massachusetts federal court — challenging the pro-Palestinian international
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Ozturk, a Turkish national, of "activities in support of Hamas."
New court filings reveal that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained just days after her student visa was revoked by the State Department.
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People with ties to American universities, most of whom have shown support for pro-Palestinian causes, have been detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national legally in the U.S. with a F-1 visa, was arrested by ICE agents near her home as she was on her way to meet friends to break her Ramadan fast, her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, told USA TODAY on Wednesday.
A federal judge in Massachusetts says a Tufts University doctoral student who was detained this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen studying at Tufts University, was taken into federal custody Tuesday, the university said, in the latest apparent example of the Trump administration targeting students with pro-Palestinian views.