Tufts Student Returns to Massachusetts After 6 Weeks in Immigration Detention
Free Speech,Middle East,Turkey,Education,Colleges And Universities,Palestine,Immigration
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Rumeysa Ozturk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday evening, eyes welling with joy and gratitude at the end of her six-week odyssey in federal custody, a case that stirred outrage over President Trumpβs immigration crackdown.
A flight carrying Ms. Ozturk, a Turkish citizen studying at Tufts University on a student visa, touched down at Boston Logan International Airport one day after a federal judge in Vermont ordered that she be immediately released from a detention facility in Louisiana.
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