Tufts student detained by ICE

[Anonymous]

Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/03/26/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration/4fef14e4-0a6c-11f0-8e5e-3a8d70fc4250_story.html

Thought this story deserved its own thread. Grad student whose only apparent connection to pro-Palestinian speech was co-writing an op ed last year calling on the President to consider student Senate resolutions passed about the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was put into an unmarked car by multiple masked people who show no id.

A neighbor's commentary:

When shown a video of the arrest, Ferraro became visibly emotional.

“It’s too much,” he said. “I don’t need to live in a place where people get plucked off the street like that, just walking around. That’s bananas. That’s just insane.”

“I don’t care what she was doing,” Ferraro continued. “You can’t just nab people off the sidewalk and throw them in a car and take them away, and expect anyone who’s seen it to be alright afterwards.”

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/03/26/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration/4fef14e4-0a6c-11f0-8e5e-3a8d70fc4250_story.html

Thought this story deserved its own thread. Grad student whose only apparent connection to pro-Palestinian speech was co-writing an op ed last year calling on the President to consider student Senate resolutions passed about the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was put into an unmarked car by multiple masked people who show no id.

A neighbor's commentary:

When shown a video of the arrest, Ferraro became visibly emotional.

“It’s too much,” he said. “I don’t need to live in a place where people get plucked off the street like that, just walking around. That’s bananas. That’s just insane.”

“I don’t care what she was doing,” Ferraro continued. “You can’t just nab people off the sidewalk and throw them in a car and take them away, and expect anyone who’s seen it to be alright afterwards.”

[url]https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/metro/its-really-scary-students-residents-react-sudden-arrest-tufts-student/
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Here's a good quality video of the masked LEOs (I assume they were LEOs because they were not in uniform) who accosted her on the street. She was one of four co-authors of the op ed. What makes our country different than her home country Turkey, which is barely democratic and run by an authoritarian?

And here's the op ed--judge it for yourself and tell us what crime she committed.

https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

[Anonymous]

Misleading title.

Trump's secret police abducted a Tufts student.

Where are you Chuck Schumer?

[Anonymous]

Fascism.

[Anonymous]

I would scream and kick and ask people to call 911. How would I know they are not a sex cult or some gang?

[Anonymous]

If "they" can take her, they can take anyone, including you.

No justification, no warrant, no reason, just a plain abduction by the government.

Imagine if Biden started abducting MAGAs for no reason...

[Anonymous]

This is disturbing. I am not sure what to do!

[Anonymous]

The sad thing is that a lot of this was devised by pro-Israel businessmen who donate to both the GOP and Dems. Look up the Canary Mission - they have provided a list of people they want Trump to deport or imprison. This woman was on their hit list for writing an op-Ed in the student newspaper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sad thing is that a lot of this was devised by pro-Israel businessmen who donate to both the GOP and Dems. Look up the Canary Mission - they have provided a list of people they want Trump to deport or imprison. This woman was on their hit list for writing an op-Ed in the student newspaper.

Here’s their hit list article on her:
https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sad thing is that a lot of this was devised by pro-Israel businessmen who donate to both the GOP and Dems. Look up the Canary Mission - they have provided a list of people they want Trump to deport or imprison. This woman was on their hit list for writing an op-Ed in the student newspaper.

Here’s their hit list article on her:
https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk

This sounds so sinister. I wonder who funds them and where they get their “evidence” of these “crimes”? Sounds very McCarthy like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sad thing is that a lot of this was devised by pro-Israel businessmen who donate to both the GOP and Dems. Look up the Canary Mission - they have provided a list of people they want Trump to deport or imprison. This woman was on their hit list for writing an op-Ed in the student newspaper.

Here’s their hit list article on her:
https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk

That’s terrifying. They have students, professors, medical professionals. WTF. Is anyone in the media talking about this organization?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Misleading title.

Trump's secret police abducted a Tufts student.

Where are you Chuck Schumer?

He's busy bloviating about Israel.

IOW, he'd support this action by the Trump regime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sad thing is that a lot of this was devised by pro-Israel businessmen who donate to both the GOP and Dems. Look up the Canary Mission - they have provided a list of people they want Trump to deport or imprison. This woman was on their hit list for writing an op-Ed in the student newspaper.

Here’s their hit list article on her:
https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk

That’s terrifying. They have students, professors, medical professionals. WTF. Is anyone in the media talking about this organization?

And if you click on certain random names, the crime of the person is that he/she participated in anti-Israel protests.

[Anonymous]

Wow… American democracy has been sacrificed in service of Israel.

[Anonymous]

Are all the international students here 30 years old?