Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral candidate from Tufts University who was detained by ICE​, returned to Massachusetts after a judge ordered her release.

Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, of Turkey, speaks at a press conference at Boston Logan International Airport after she was released on a judge's order after spending over six weeks in an immigration detention center in Louisiana,

Freed after her painful ordeal in a federal facility, Rumeysa Ozturk expressed joy, gratitude and continued faith in American democracy.

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A federal judge has issued a two-week pause on the Trump administration’s layoffs across the federal government, ruling that the effort to fire of thousands of workers and eliminate some agencies entirely cannot proceed for now.

An immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest became chaotic as bystanders tried to stop the federal agents from arresting a woman in a Worcester, Mass., neighborhood late Thursday morning.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Sunday afternoon in opposition to recent arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Many of the same protestors who were blocking the agents' car and chanting, "where is the warrant," during Thursday's arrest, packed inside the YWCA on Friday, angry and demanding answers.