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On March 25, 2025, Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk reportedly was apprehended and detained by six masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Somerville, Massachus...
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U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston said that to provide time to resolve whether her court retained jurisdiction over the case, she was barring Ozturk's deportation temporarily.
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