A federal choose has blocked the Trump administration’s try to deport a Tufts Ph.D. scholar that they alleged is a supporter of Hamas.
US District Courtroom Decide Denise Casper, an Obama appointee within the District of Massachusetts, has dominated that the Trump administration can’t proceed with deporting Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts College scholar from Turkey who was apprehended by ICE brokers on Wednesday.
Courtroom paperwork present Decide Casper is flexing her skill to “preserve existing conditions” whereas figuring out whether or not her courtroom has jurisdiction within the matter in any respect.
Ozturk was apprehended by plainclothes ICE officers on a Boston road Tuesday in a viral video that confirmed her complete shock as arresting officers took her telephone from her hand and positioned her in handcuffs.
The PHD scholar and Columbia Grasp’s Diploma holder was taken to a facility in Louisiana — however is now being blocked from deportation.
The Division of Homeland Safety alleged that Ozturk was a supporter of Hamas however has but to offer any proof to that impact.
On March 26, 2024, Ozturk co-authored an opinion article revealed within the Tufts Every day newspaper that criticized college directors for his or her response to anti-Israel protests within the wake of the October seventh assaults and known as for the college to divest from corporations with ties to Israel.
Ozturk is listed within the database of pro-Israel activist group Canary Mission, which alleged that she is an anti-Israel activist and a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions motion.
Comparable authorized battles have performed out within the Japanese District of Virginia and the Southern District of New York, as these courts additionally discipline circumstances of tried deportations of scholars from Georgetown College and Columbia College respectively.
