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ICE officials placed her on a flight out of the airport in Burlington.
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Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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Ozturk's lawyers have said that her detention violates her constitutional rights, including free speech and due process.
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BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was seized by immigration officials off a street near Boston argued in federal court Thursday that she should be returned to Massachusetts, while the U.S. government insisted it did nothing wrong in moving her to a detention center in Louisiana.
U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts.
A federal judge in Boston will hear arguments Thursday afternoon on whether a legal challenge to the detention of a Tufts University student should remain in Massachusetts.
An attorney for the Justice Department denied "manipulating" jurisdictions when ICE agents swiftly moved a Tufts doctoral student out of state and flew her to Louisiana last week.
The case to free a Tufts PhD student and vocally pro-Palestine Turkish national after she was detained last week took a step forward in court Thursday, with the defense and government contesting
ICE agents took Turkish Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk into custody near Tufts, revoked her visa and moved her to a detention center in Louisiana last week.