Graduate student at Tufts University This week, detained by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Somerville, Massachusetts, this week is being held in Louisiana, according to a statement from the University of Louisiana president.
ICE confirmed Rumeysa Ozturk's detention To Fox News on Wednesday. She is originally from Türkiye.
“We have recently learned and verified that Le Mesa Ozturk, a student detained by federal immigration authorities yesterday, is currently being held in Louisiana,” Kumar said in a statement Thursday morning. “We recognize how frightening and painful this situation is for her, her loved ones, especially her international students, her staff and faculty members who may be vulnerable or anxious about these events, for her, her loved ones, and for the larger community here.”
He added that “female of Rumeysa's arrest” was released Wednesday.
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Tufts University President Sunil Kumar called footage of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest “intrusive” this week.
“We are standing with Muslim students, especially while adhering to Ramadan. Lu Messa recognizes that when she is detained, she is heading to an Iftar gathering with friends at the Inter-Indigenous Centre,” Kumar said.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell also criticized the arrest on Wednesday.
“Foot from Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest – the students here are legally in the way,” Campbell said in a statement. “It seems that the federal administration has chosen to ambush her and detain her based on what we know now, and is targeting law-abiding individuals because of her political views. This is not public safety, it should be threatened and threatened in court.
A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News Wednesday that Ozturk was “gived the privilege of being in this country on a visa.”
“DHS and ICE investigations reveal that Oztalk is engaged in activities to support Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that enjoys the murder of Americans,” the spokesman said. “Visa is a privilege not a right. To praise and support terrorists who kill Americans is that the basis for issuing a visa is fired. This is common sense security.”
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ICE confirmed Tufts University Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest at Fox News on Wednesday.
The legal team representing Ozturk told Fox News that she has Valid F-1 visa status Before her arrest. They also say they have not been charged with her client and are demanding her release.
“Lumessa was heading to break Ramadan and meet with friends when he was detained near his home in Summerville, Massachusetts on the evening of March 25th by a DHS agent,” the Kambabai Immigration Act told Fox News in a statement Wednesday. “We weren't aware of her whereabouts and were unable to contact her. We have not been charged with Rumeysa so far.”
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On Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani granted a petition from Ozturk's attorneys who demanded that they not be taken from the Massachusetts area.
The legal team representing Ozturk told Fox News that he had valid F-1 visa status prior to his arrest.
The lawyer says he has not been charged with her at this time and demands her release. The legal team says Ozturk is not disciplined for his involvement in the campus protest, but they won't say whether she took part in the pro-Palestinian campus protest.
“We hope Rumeysa will be released soon. Anyone who wants to support Rumeysa is welcome to attend the rally in Somerville tonight,” the statement continued Wednesday.
Kumar said the Tufts “is in communication with elected local, state and federal officials and hopes that Rumeysa will be offered the opportunity to exploit her rights to a due process.”
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Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have arrested a graduate student at Tufts University. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Gloe)
“The University is actively working to support the Tufts community to mobilize collective resources and contact information to ensure the safety and well-being of our students,” the university president said.
Last March, Ozturk co-authored OP-Ed for Tufts Daily, a student newspaper that has taken the university's response to several resolutions passed by the Tufts Community Union Senators on March 4, 2024. Israel. ”
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Ozturk was a graduate student of the School of Medicine in the Department of Children's Research and Human Development at the Tufts University Eliot-Pearson division.
The legal team representing Ozturk told Fox News that he had valid F-1 visa status prior to his arrest. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Gloe)
On January 30, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cancel his student visa Hamas sympathizers on university campus.
Executive Order 13899 aims to combat “an unprecedented wave of despicable anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence against citizens on October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, the beginning of the beginning of the 15-month war.
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“To all participating resident aliens Pro-jihadist protests, We will notify you: Come in 2025, we will find you, and we will expel you,” the president said in the January 30th fact sheet of the executive order.
Hamas terrorists will take the position ahead of the hostage release at Dayal Balau in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, February 8th, 2025. (AP)
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization. The National Intelligence Agency says it describes it as “the largest and most capable extremist group on the Palestinian territory and one of the two major political parties on the territory.”
The Trump administration also has it Federal grants have been revoked from Columbia University He is suspected of failing to address anti-Semitism on campus.
“We recognize that tonight's news will be painful for some members of our community, especially for our international community,” Kumar said in his statement. “As details are now available, we will continue to provide information, support and resources over the next few days.”
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The cost of attending Tufts before financial aid is listed between $80,000 and $90,000 University website.
Tufts received $115.2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health as of 2025, according to the university's website, direct costs are $88.3 million and facility and management costs are $26.9 million.
Andrew Fone of Fox News contributed to this report.
