Boston Herald / AP: Immigration judge denies bond for Tufts University student from Turkey, her lawyers say

[Dennis Donovan]

Boston Herald / AP - ( https://archive.ph/7weN8 ) Immigration judge denies bond for Tufts University student from Turkey, her lawyers say

Associated Press
UPDATED: April 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM EDT



By KATHY McCORMACK
An immigration judge denied bond for a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been detained by authorities in Louisiana for three weeks over what her lawyers say is apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper.

Meanwhile, Rumeysa Ozturk’s lawyers filed a new request with a federal judge in Vermont considering whether to take jurisdiction of her detention case. The lawyers asked the judge to order her to be brought to the state by Friday and hold a hearing next week. They said that would allow better communication with her legal team and a doctor to evaluate her. They say Ozturk has suffered five asthma attacks in detention.

Lawyers for Ozturk, 30, had asked an immigration judge that she be released on bond as her immigration case proceeds. That judge denied her request Wednesday, the same day Ozturk had a hearing, they said in a statement released Thursday morning.

The Department of Homeland Security presented one document to support their opposition to Ozturk’s bond request: a one-paragraph State Department memo revoking her student visa, her lawyers said in the new court filing.

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[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

My oldest daughter worked in a Boston law office, handling immigration cases. She moved to Europe last year. We talk about this case frequently.

[Tadpole Raisin]

2. There's got to be a way to prevent them from taking these people to a more favorable jurisdiction.

That’s the only reason they do it, keeping them from family, friends, and their local legal team.

They should be processed in the jurisdiction they live in.

[MichMan]

4. Why Vermont ?

Meanwhile, Rumeysa Ozturk’s lawyers filed a new request with a federal judge in Vermont considering whether to take jurisdiction of her detention case.

She lives in Massachusetts and Tufts is also located in Massachusetts.

[Tadpole Raisin]

5. At least it's N. E. Maybe she has connections there or

Lives there on breaks.

Don’t know, but it’s better than Louisiana!

[intheflow]

6. She was taken in Mass but then transferred to NH and then VT to start her habeas petition.

A Massachusetts judge said since she was charged in Vermont, that's where the trial should be. ACLU has a good write up on it: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/in-new-filings-rumeysa-ozturks-legal-team-argue-for-her-release-from-ice-detention

[young_at_heart]

3. I find this image "chilling"!

This doesn't feel like my country anymore!