An update from some of the high profile detainments by ICE of international students: Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was released from an ICE detention facility in Louisiana on May 10. She will be returning to Tuft University in Massachusetts and continue to fight her deportation case in Vermont. The judge said her free speech rights were violated, that her continued detention in Louisiana would seriously impact her health and that she poses no risk to the community. He went on to say that: “Her continued detention chills the speech of millions in this country who are not citizens.” Ozturk had been held for the last six weeks as her lawyers fought to have the government release her.

As with other high profile cases, Ozturk was moved to a detention center in Louisiana where a conservative jurisdictions are “more favourable to the Trump administration’s deportation agenda”. The Trump administration has detained several international students – some legal residents – who have expressed support for Palestine. Last week, a judge ordered the government to release Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi after immigration officials detained him during a naturalization interview. One of the highest profile cases, Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent pro-Palestinian activist, was denied application for a temporary release from the detention center to attend the birth of his child who was born this past Monday. He remains in a Louisiana detention facility without charge.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/bail-hearing-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detained-in-louisiana/