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Tufts University administrators said Wednesday that they had “no information to support” the allegations made by federal officials against Rümeysa Öztürk, the graduate student who was detained by ICE ...
The Washington Post |
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
U.S. News & World Report |
They’ve asked the judge to order that she be immediately returned to Massachusetts and released from custody.

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