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Poor conditions at Louisiana ICE detention center holding Tufts student, advocates say
A 2024 report found women held at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile complained of filth and abusive ...
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University grad student, was detained by masked ICE agents
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Ozturk, a Turkish national, of "activities in support of Hamas." ...
Outrage grows after Tufts student detained by ICE, Marco Rubio defends action
Protesters rallied a second day before the Somerville City Council, pushing councilors to help get Rumeysa Ozturk released.
Inside the only facility in Massassachusetts still holding immigration detainees for ICE
Massachusetts' relatively liberal stance on immigration enforcement has put the state at odds with the Trump administration, but there's one notable exception.
The Boston Globe3d
Vermont federal judge denies request to order ICE to release Tufts student on bail
A federal judge in Vermont denied a request Monday to order the release of a Tufts graduate student who was arrested outside her Somerville apartment in March by Immigration and Customs ...
CBS News7d
Judge in Boston weighs whether to move case of detained Tufts Ph.D. student
"ICE was still in the process of transferring ... and for her to be freed from government custody. On Wednesday, Tufts president Sunil Kumar submitted a declaration defending Ozturk and supporting ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency6d
Jews at Tufts are furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student. But they’re wary of joining protests for her.
Some activists have sought to turn Rümeysa Öztürk’s case into a rallying cry against Israel, turning off some Jews.