Lawmakers visit students Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk as they face deportation

Democratic lawmakers visit Mahmoud Khalil, others held at Lousiana detention center

NPR speaks to Rep. Troy Carter, who visited a detention center in his home state Louisiana with a Democratic delegation to meet Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil and others recently detained by ICE.

Dem congressional members visit Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk in ICE detention centers

A group of Democratic congressional reps visited Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk in a pair of federal detention centers in Louisiana Tuesday as they face potential removal from the United States, according to reports.

Congress members visit detained Columbia, Tufts students in Louisiana ICE lockups • Louisiana Illuminator

From left, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, Sen. Edward J. Markey, Rep. Troy Carter, Rep. Jim McGovern, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, speak with reports during a news conference held Tuesday, April 22, 2025, outside an ICE detention facility in Basile, Louisiana.. (John Gray/Verite News)BASILE – U.S. Rep Troy Carter, a New Orleans Democrat, accused the Trump administration of violating the rights o…

Congressional Democrats visit Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk in ICE detention centers

Democratic members of Congress demanded their immediate release.

Democratic lawmakers visit ICE detainees in Louisiana, decry Trump immigration policies

Several Democratic lawmakers and members of Louisianas ACLU traveled to South Louisiana to visit two university students being held in ICE processing centers part of what officials called an "oversight visit."The trip was led by U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, D-La., and included Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and others. They met with Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student detained in Jena, and Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Uni…

3 Mass. Congress members visit Louisiana ICE facility holding Tufts student

In a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and ICE acting Director Todd Lyons, the lawmakers demanded answers and raised questions about the fairness of the immigration enforcement system, suggesting ICE did not transfer Öztürk to Louisiana due to a lack of bed space in New England — as the federal government has claimed — but instead to hand-pick the courts that will decide her case.