Pressley cautions ‘this could happen to anyone’ after Rümeysa Öztürk returns to Boston
Öztürk Returns to Boston After Detention Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) greeted Tufts University Ph.D. student Lumeisa Öztürk upon her return to Boston after a nearly two-month detention related to her protest activities against the war in Gaza. Öztürk was released from a Louisiana detention facility following a federal judge’s order, […]
Federal judge approves bail request for Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk
Federal Judge Grants Bail to Tufts Student Detained by ICE A federal judge in Vermont has agreed to a bail request from a Tufts University student held by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Judge William K. Sessions III, appointed by former President Barack Obama, approved Lumeisa Ozturk’s bail on Friday. He expressed concerns […]
Dem Lawmakers Visit Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk in ICE Detention
Democrats visited Mahmoud Khalil and Lumeisa Ozturk. This is two university students facing deportation as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on anti-Semitism on university campuses. Mahmoud Khalil, as reported by Breitbart News, is a US non-citizen on the green card and “begins to protest against Israeli counterattack less than a week after Hamas launched […]
Dem congressional reps visit Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk in ICE detention centers
A group of Democratic Congress officials traveled to Louisiana to visit Mahmoud Khalil and Lumeisa Ozturk on Tuesday in a pair of federal detention centers. Five lawmakers, including Louisiana Rep. Troy Carter. Rep. Benny Thompson of Mississippi. All of Massachusetts’ Ayana Presley, Jim McGovern and Senator Ed Markey stopped by federal immigrants at the customs […]
The mechanics of kidnapping: How ICE is imprisoning Rumeysa Ozturk
District Court Judge William Session in Vermont on Friday. order Rumeysa Ozturk will be taken home from Louisiana for a hearing. She is still under the control of immigration and customs enforcement. Oztak is a Turkish doctoral candidate in children’s research and human development at Tufts University in Boston, whose student visa has been revoked […]