The Washington Post reports the State Department found no evidence linking Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk to antisemitic activities or public statements in support of terrorism, before masked agents in plainclothes abducted her on the street in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 25. The Post reports a State Department memo determined Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not have sufficient grounds for revoking Öztürk’s visa, contradicting public accusations made by the Trump administration. The 30-year-old doctoral student from Turkey remains jailed at a privately run ICE detention center in Louisiana.
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