Detained Tufts student denied bond

Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont

By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press A federal judge on Friday ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana to be brought to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper. U.S. District Judge William Sessions said he would hear Rumeysa Ozturk’s request to be released from detention. Her lawyers had requeste…

Judge Orders Tufts Student Detained By ICE To Be Brought To Vermont

The 30-year-old doctoral student was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.

Senator Warren demands documents outlining basis ‘or lack thereof’ of Tufts’ student’s immigration detention - The Boston Globe

The letter, sent Thursday, was cosigned by Senator Edward Markey and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley.

Foreign Student Persecution Imperils any American Who Advocates for Freedom - LewRockwell

“If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek’s insight could be the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Trump administration’s censorship zealotry. On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was wearin…

Immigration judge denies bond for Alabama student Alireza Doroudi month after being picked up by ICE agents in Tuscaloosa

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) -- A student from Iran who had been studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama before being picked up by immigration officers last month, will remain in custody a little while longer after a judge denied bond for him. Alireza Doroudi, 32, was in court Thursday for a bond hearing at LaSalle Immigration Court, located in the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, Louisiana. He was originally due …

An immigration judge has denied bond to a Turkish Tufts University student. She has been detained by Louisiana authorities for three weeks in what her lawyers say is apparent retaliation for a…