Tufts student detained by ICE

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/13/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-trump/

No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found

An internal memo, prepared days before Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE agents, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.

Thank you for the update. I’ve been following the case closely. So basically Rubio et al were LYING. But apparently he has discretion to deport whomever he wants.

People need to realize that being pro-Palestine does not mean you are pro-Hamas. Just like being pro-Israel does not mean that you are a Zionist.

Sorry but you really can't be pro-Israel without being Zionist. Israel as a religious ethnostate could not exist without the oppression, occupation, and treatment of the majority population of Palestinians as unequals.

I think this is probably true but I also think you can’t be pro-Palestine without being pro-Hamas.

Nonsense. Being pro-Palestine can just encompass ideologies anti-genocide, anti-apartheid, anti-ethnic cleansing, anti-occupation, anti-racism, anti-colonialism and human rights for all. Many Jews are at the forefront of the movement.

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And DOJ lost the appeal.

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What’s not spoken about enough in all of this is that the individuals cheering on these abductions don’t care in the slightest that these detained students are living in hell during these drawn-out proceedings, for this portion of their lives - all because our government is corrupted and takes orders from foreign state actors.

There should be unflinching accountability for those on the wrong side of history here.

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This is such great news! I’ve been waiting for this for weeks. She needs to get out of that awful prison in Louisiana and back to New England where she will be closer to her attorneys and will live in better conditions.

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Anyone abducted and detained in the U.S. on this “Criticism of Israel” witch hunt, who is later found by the Court to have been wrongfully detained, should receive $25,000.00 per day for each day of detention, paid for by Israel with funds that they can prove were not obtained from the U.S.

The penalty needs to discourage this.

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I wonder how many Americans know that Turkey, where Rumeysa Ozturk is from, is currently experiencing mass civil unrest after the leader, Recep Erdogan, unjustly imprisoned his political rival, the popular mayor of Istanbul and his main political rival. Many of the protestors are students and they have been engaging in pro-democracy demonstrations since the mayor's arrest in March.

The irony of a Turkish student imprisoned by the Trump regime (in the freaking UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, people!) for exercising her free speech at the same time that students and others in her home country are fighting for their democracy and being jailed for expressing their free speech is huge, as are the similarities between our so-called democracy and those of a country that claims to be one but is ruled by an authoritarian.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkey-erdogan-protests-ekrem-imamoglu-prison-istanbul-mayor-rcna197925
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2025/04/11/39593

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone abducted and detained in the U.S. on this “Criticism of Israel” witch hunt, who is later found by the Court to have been wrongfully detained, should receive $25,000.00 per day for each day of detention, paid for by Israel with funds that they can prove were not obtained from the U.S.

The penalty needs to discourage this.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone abducted and detained in the U.S. on this “Criticism of Israel” witch hunt, who is later found by the Court to have been wrongfully detained, should receive $25,000.00 per day for each day of detention, paid for by Israel with funds that they can prove were not obtained from the U.S.

The penalty needs to discourage this.

AIPAC will probably get Congress to pass a law making the detainee pay $25,000 each day instead

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many Americans know that Turkey, where Rumeysa Ozturk is from, is currently experiencing mass civil unrest after the leader, Recep Erdogan, unjustly imprisoned his political rival, the popular mayor of Istanbul and his main political rival. Many of the protestors are students and they have been engaging in pro-democracy demonstrations since the mayor's arrest in March.

The irony of a Turkish student imprisoned by the Trump regime (in the freaking UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, people!) for exercising her free speech at the same time that students and others in her home country are fighting for their democracy and being jailed for expressing their free speech is huge, as are the similarities between our so-called democracy and those of a country that claims to be one but is ruled by an authoritarian.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkey-erdogan-protests-ekrem-imamoglu-prison-istanbul-mayor-rcna197925
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2025/04/11/39593

A colleague of mine escaped from Turkey for protesting the US government. He was granted asylum in the US, and he can never go back to Turkey while Erdogan is in power because there is a warrant for his arrest for speaking out against the government. His completely innocent mom went to jail too because of his actions. Our government is no different from Turkey now.

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^^meant to write that my colleague was protesting the Erdogan government, not the US government.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many Americans know that Turkey, where Rumeysa Ozturk is from, is currently experiencing mass civil unrest after the leader, Recep Erdogan, unjustly imprisoned his political rival, the popular mayor of Istanbul and his main political rival. Many of the protestors are students and they have been engaging in pro-democracy demonstrations since the mayor's arrest in March.

The irony of a Turkish student imprisoned by the Trump regime (in the freaking UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, people!) for exercising her free speech at the same time that students and others in her home country are fighting for their democracy and being jailed for expressing their free speech is huge, as are the similarities between our so-called democracy and those of a country that claims to be one but is ruled by an authoritarian.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkey-erdogan-protests-ekrem-imamoglu-prison-istanbul-mayor-rcna197925
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2025/04/11/39593

A colleague of mine escaped from Turkey for protesting the US government. He was granted asylum in the US, and he can never go back to Turkey while Erdogan is in power because there is a warrant for his arrest for speaking out against the government. His completely innocent mom went to jail too because of his actions. Our government is no different from Turkey now.

I'm the PP you're responding to. Please tell everyone you know about your colleague's experience and how it compares to Ozturk's. I am sharing this story as well because so few Americans seem to realize how fragile our democracy is right now. They've never had to fight for it like so many in other countries.

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And now, she is out.

The Trump DOJ is a failure at every turn.

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Anonymous wrote:And now, she is out.

The Trump DOJ is a failure at every turn.

Thanks for alerting us, PP! I've been following this story closely.

From the Boston Globe today:

A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts PhD candidate whose sudden arrest by federal immigration agents made national news.

“These are very substantial claims of both due-process and First Amendment violations,” US District Judge William K. Sessions III said as he made his ruling at the end of a three-hour-long bail hearing on Friday in Vermont. He added, “Her continued detention potentially chills the speech of the millions and millions of individuals in this country who were not citizens.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/09/metro/rumeysa-ozturk-bail-hearing/

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Anonymous wrote:And now, she is out.

The Trump DOJ is a failure at every turn.

This is an incredible success for the Israeli Lobby no matter how you see it. Non-citizens will now have to think twice before daring to speak out against Israel.

Intimidation tactics work on people who have a lot to lose. Despite being released, being detained and held under terrible conditions in a far away state might not be worth it.

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Upon release, she should immediately file her civil claim of IIED, etc. against Canary Mission and Betar to start the wheels grinding, along with any individuals in social media that involved themselves in her loss of liberty. She’ll probably also name Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, State, DHS, and the U.S.A. as defendants.

It doesn’t matter that Miller / Rubio / Noem / Homan and State / DHS / U.S.A. will be dropped from the suit by the Court, chances are that one or more of those clowns will inadvertently turn over documentation in the process that tightens the noose on Canary Mission and Betar, which should be the aim.