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Judge to Consider Release of Tufts University Student Rümeysa Öztürk

HeadlineApr 09, 2025

A federal judge in Vermont will consider a request for ICE to release Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk on bail while her case is resolved in court. This came after a judge ruled her case could be moved from Boston to the state of Vermont. Öztürk remains jailed at a privately run ICE detention center in Louisiana after being taken by masked, plainclothes federal immigration agents from the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts, in late March.

This comes as Trump’s State Department has revoked the visas of nearly 300 international students nationwide. The students, including at the University of California, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard and other schools, now face deportation.

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