A federal judge ordered Friday that a Student of the University of Tufts detainees By the immigration authorities in Louisiana that will be taken to Vermont on May 1 for an audience about what his lawyers say it was an apparent reprisal for an opinion piece that he co -written in the student newspaper.
The US district judge. William Sessions said he would listen to Rumeysa Ozturb’s request from being released from detention.
His lawyers had requested to release her immediately, or at least they will bring him back to Vermont.
The 30 -year -old doctoral student was tasks of immigration officials while walking down a street in the Boston suburb on March 25.
After being tasks of New Hampshire and then Vermont, the next day he put it on a plane and moved to an immigration detention center and customs application in Basile, Louisiana.
An immigration judge denied his bail application on Wednesday.
Ozturb is among several people with ties with American universities whose visas were revoked or have been prevented from entering the United States after they baculuse or attended demonstrations or expressed their support publicly to the Palestinians.
An immigration judge of Louisiana ruled that the United States can deport the graduate student from Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, based on the federal government argument that raises a risk of national security.
Ozturb’s lawyers are challenging the Legal Authority for ICE detention.
They asked him to be immediately released from custody, or in the alternative, be returned to Vermont while continuing his immigration case.
A lawyer from the Department of Justice said his case must be dismissed, saying that the Immigration Court has jurisdiction.
Ozturb’s lawyers first presented a petition on their being in Massachusetts.
Initially, they didn’t know where I was.
They said they could not talk to her until more than 24 hours after she was arrested.
Ozturb herself said without success made multiple requests to talk to a lawyer.
Ozturb was one of the four students who wrote an opinion article in the Campus newspaper, Tufs Daily, last year, criticizing the university’s response to student activists who demand that TUFTS “acknowledges that fans of the Palestinian genocide are the investment.
Ozturb’s lawyers say their detention violates their constitutional rights, including freedom of expression and due process.
A spokesman for the National Security Department said last month, without providing evidence, that the investigations found that OzTurb participated in activities in support of Hamas, a terrorist group designated by the United States.
