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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This just in from the Boston Globe. She is now being represented by the ACLU, in addition to her private lawyer. I've included the highlights of the article below. I can gift the article, if anyone is interested.

[b]Tufts student was not notified her visa was revoked shortly before masked ICE agents arrested her, defense says[/b]

[i]The Trump administration revoked the visa of a Tufts graduate student on March 21 but never notified her before masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swarmed her on a Somerville sidewalk Tuesday and took her into custody, records show.[/i]

Once Rümeysa Öztürk was in ICE custody, her friends, her attorney, and the Turkish consulate could not locate her for 24 hours, during which she suffered an asthma attack [my note: elsewhere I read that she was whisked away so quickly that she never got to grab the two inhalers she uses for her asthma], according to a new court filing Friday by her attorneys.

Her attorneys argue that Öztürk, a 30-year-old PhD student from Turkey, is being targeted for taking a public pro-Palestinian stance on Tufts campus last year in violation of her First Amendment right to free speech.

The latest filing also asserts that Öztürk’s Fifth Amendment right to due process was violated since she was unaware her visa was revoked when ICE agents placed her in handcuffs outside her home.

The defense also argues that the administration did not follow Department of Homeland Security rules that apply when an international student has visa issues. Öztürk should not have been arrested but notified that a hearing was to be held on the matter at a future date, the lawyers say in the filing.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/28/metro/tufts-student-in-ice-custody-aclu/?p1=HP_Feed_ContentQuery

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She was not accorded anything approaching a civilized and lawful standard for handling her visa issue. We are better than this. [/quote]

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