A delegation of Democratic lawmakers traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday, where they met with Tufts University Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil at the ICE detention centers where they’ve been jailed since March while they face deportation. Senator Ed Markey led the delegation, joined by Congressmembers Jim McGovern, Troy Carter, Bennie Thompson and Ayanna Pressley, who spoke to reporters after the meeting.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley: “Well, just another day in Donald Trump’s America — Donald Trump and his anti-freedom agenda, that means to control our very bodies, that means to control the books we read, that means to control the free press, that means to control free speech.”

The Massachusetts legislators said that Rümeysa Öztürk has suffered a number of asthmatic attacks. Click here to see our coverage of all of these cases.