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https://www.europesays.com/news/27291/ ‘It’s Getting Unfriendlier’: International Students Race to Find Jobs #CitizenshipAndImmigrationServices(US) #CollegesAndUniversities #deportation #DonaldJ #ForeignStudents(inUS) #ForeignWorkers #Headlines #HiringAndPromotion #News #Ozturk #Rumeysa #TopStories #trump #UnitedStates

A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officials

and called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”

In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”

Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.

The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism.

On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.

“Talking straight here,” he said.

“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.

“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”

Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”

The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.

Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.

The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.

The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members.

The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;

#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;

and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.

All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.

The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.

⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.

The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/

A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officials

and called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”

In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”

Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.

The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism.

On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.

“Talking straight here,” he said.

“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.

“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”

Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”

The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.

Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.

The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.

The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members.

The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;

#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;

and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.

All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.

The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.

⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.

The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/

A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officials

and called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”

In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”

Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.

The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism.

On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.

“Talking straight here,” he said.

“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.

“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”

Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”

The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.

Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.

The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.

The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members.

The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;

#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;

and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.

All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.

The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.

⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.

The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/

A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officials

and called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”

In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”

Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.

The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism.

On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.

“Talking straight here,” he said.

“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.

“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”

Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”

The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.

Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.

The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.

The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members.

The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;

#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;

and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.

All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.

The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.

⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.

The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/

A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officials

and called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”

In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William #Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a
“fearful approach”
to freedom of speech that would seek to
“exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”

Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan,
leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s ⚠️detentions of
pro-Palestinian students last year.

The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an 👉 illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism.

On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms.

“Talking straight here,” he said.

“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries
and ostensibly,
the president of the United States,
are not honoring the First Amendment.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
engaged in an
“unconstitutional conspiracy”
to deprive people of their rights,
Young said.

“The secretary of state,” he noted,
his voice full of incredulity,
“the senior cabinet officer in our history involved in this.”

Spokespersons for the White House,
Noem and Rubio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, last year called Young a “craven” judge who was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”

The government actions at the core of the case date to early March,
when the Trump administration launched a campaign to detain and deport noncitizen students at U.S. universities
who had been active in opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.

Though not accused of any crime,
those arrested spent weeks confined in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities,
at times hundreds of miles from where they lived,
before being released on bail.

The plaintiffs in the case are the American Association of University Professors
and the Middle East Studies Association.

The groups of scholars accused the administration of having an unconstitutional policy of deporting people based on their political views,
a policy intended to chill the free-speech rights of their members.

The trial last summer focused on the targeting of five noncitizen students and scholars: #Mahmoud #Khalil, #Yunseo #Chung and #Mohsen #Mahdawi, who were students at Columbia University;

#Rumeysa #Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University;

and #Badar #Khan #Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University.

All were arrested except Chung,
who obtained a restraining order before ICE could find her.

The other four were released on the orders of federal judges,
but the Trump administration is still trying to deport them.

⭐️On Thursday, an appellate court in Philadelphia overturned a
Ruling lower-court ruling in Khalil’s case on jurisdictional grounds,
⛔️raising the possibility that he could be rearrested.

The president and other officials hailed last year’s detentions as part of a fight against "antisemitism", alleging without presenting evidence that the targeted students promoted violence or were pro-Hamas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/

#Melder: 1. FC #Lok verpflichtet Eren #Öztürk

https://www.l-iz.de/melder/sportmelder/2025/08/1-fc-lok-verpflichtet-eren-oeztuerk-631078
#Leipzig #Fußball

Right now Judge Sessions is hearing arguments on whether #ICE gets to impose extra conditions of release on #RümeysaÖztürk, who is already out on #bail.

(Sessions declined to attach ICE conditions at the time of release last week, but said he'd consider a written proposal later).

Yesterday, #Öztürk's attys asked Sessions to reject all of ICE's proposed additional conditions of release, calling them unjustified & unjustifiable.

#immigration #law #student #visa #Trump
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25942332-ozturk-ecf-138-petitioners-opp-to-proposed-conditions/

#Tufts student returns to #Massachusetts after release from immigration custody

from #Reuters
By Nate Raymond
May 10, 202510:12 PM EDT

[article contains 5 nice photos :-) ]

** Summary**
* #Öztürk returns home after release from immigration detention center
* Judge in #Vermont grants bail, citing substantial claims her rights were violated
* Ozturk urges public to remember detained women in Louisiana

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tufts-student-returns-massachusetts-after-release-immigration-custody-2025-05-11/

#EndBlockadeOfGaza
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw #RümeysaÖztürk
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Good audio here:
https://youtu.be/Zcg3NDUW3Tg

#ozturk #constitution #massachusetts #SomervilleMA #tufts

Senator Markey live streaming on YouTube: “Rümeysa Öztürk and her legal team speak at Logan Airport after arriving home from ICE detention in Louisiana”
https://www.youtube.com/live/vrHq1xKtdEM

#ozturk #massachusetts #tufts #boston #aclu #constitution

Yes!!
#Ozturk #ICE #USCoup

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-tufts-student-deportation-rumeysa-ozturk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#ThreeGoodThings

1. Had lunch w/a student who is majoring in engineering and English. It was a joy to talk to her. We've agreed to read Ruth #Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness and compare notes.

2. Another incredible student recommended Haruki #Murakami's What I Talk about When I Talk about Running. I have started it and it's inspiring me to continue working on another #memoir that is in its infant phase.

3. Rumeysa #Ozturk has been released.

#humanities
#literature

Best moment today

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/bail-hearing-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detained-in-louisiana/3708999/

#ozturk #SomervilleMA #tufts #massachusetts #constitution

#Ozturk’s only “crime” – the apparent reason masked federal agents snatched her off the street – was she’d written something the government didn’t like. Specifically, something the Trump administration didn’t like.
https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/04/03?story=paragraph-10514

"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."

The judge ordered that she be released immediately!!!

#tufts #SomervilleMA #ozturk #constitution

The judge in #RumeysaOzturk’s case noted that the govt presented no evidence other than #Ozturk’s op-ed raising a very significant & substantial claim that 1st Amendment protected speech formed the basis for her detention.

Which suggests the reason she was detained was punishment for her opinion.

#immigration #law #Trump #StudentVisas #Universities #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress

#RumeysaOzturk’s hearing is coming to a close. Importantly, just now the judge stated that the court finds #Ozturk meets all 3 requirements for granting #bail.

1) Substantial claims, (2) extraordinary
circumstances, (3) necessary to make #habeas effective

#immigration #law #Trump #StudentVisas #Universities #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress

This morning there was a bail hearing before Judge William Sessions for #Tufts student #RumeysaOzturk at a Vermont federal court. #Ozturk attended via Zoom from a #detention center in #Louisiana.

Ozturk testified in support of her release. She discussed her #humanitarian work related to child development & her increased #asthma attacks since detention. She also said Tufts has offered her housing should she be released.

The #Trump #DOJ declined cross-examination.

#immigration #law #FreeSpeech

NEW: Judge Sessions appears to have converted tomorrow's scheduled bail hearing for #RümeysaÖztürk into a status conference while the court awaits #Öztürk's transfer to Vermont.

#law #Constitution #immigration #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Trump #MarcoRubio #AbuseOfPower

“The #Trump administration tried to do the same thing to Mr. #Khalil, Ms. #Ozturk, & Mr. #Mahdawi in order to find a court it believed would be friendlier to its unlawful #detention of people advocating for #Palestinian rights. We are pleased the court saw through the Trump administration’s attempts to manipulate the #law, & we won’t stop fighting until Dr. #KhanSuri is reunited with his family,” Heilman said.

#immigration #law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech

Even the decidedly right-wing Cato Institute says the government of the US has no legal basis to revoke a visa on the basis on op-ed, as in the Rumeysa #Ozturk case. https://www.cato.org/blog/government-cant-revoke-visa-because-op-ed

A delegation of five congressional Democrats traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday to visit
#Mahmoud #Khalil and #Rümeysa #Öztürk
in the immigration prisons they’re being held in and to demand their release.

The group of lawmakers, led by Rep. Troy #Carter (Louisiana), is the first from Congress to visit either Khalil or Öztürk since they were abducted by immigration agents last month and flown from their homes in New York and Massachusetts, respectively, to Louisiana.

The group also included Sen. Ed ##Markey (Massachusetts) and Representatives Jim #McGovern (Massachusetts), Ayanna #Pressley (Massachusetts), and Bennie #Thompson (Mississippi).
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-travel-to-louisiana-ice-prisons-to-demand-release-of-khalil-ozturk/

‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails

Delegation visits jails where #MahmoudKhalil and #RümeysaÖztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ #Trump

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Dani Anguiano
Tue 22 Apr 2025 20.31 EDT

"#Öztürk, a #TuftsUniversity PhD student, and #Khalil, a graduate of #Columbia, have been detained for more than a month since US immigration authorities took them into custody. Neither have been accused of criminal conduct and are being held in violation of their constitutional rights, members of the delegation said."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/mahmoud-khalil-rumeysa-ozturk-ice-detention?CMP=share_btn_url

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

"[The abduction of Rümeysa Öztürk] was not 'law enforcement.' It was a political kidnapping, an act of state terror. It mirrored, in form and intent, the very tactics the Gestapo used to silence dissent, disappear the 'undesirables,' and spread fear through calculated, extrajudicial violence in Nazi Germany."

~ Henry Giroux

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportation #Nazis #Ozturk

https://truthout.org/articles/amid-state-abductions-trumps-fascism-is-no-longer-creeping-its-here/

Charge or release #Khalil and #Ozturk

A Turkish doctoral student who was grabbed off the street by plain-clothes federal agents -- in apparent retaliation for her op-ed criticizing Israel -- says her arrest and ongoing detention won’t stop her from speaking out.
Tufts University’s PhD student #Rumeysa #Ozturk
— among several international students targeted for removal from the country for their Palestinian advocacy
— remains in detention in a Louisiana facility while her lawyers argue in court for her release.
She has not been accused of a crime, and the government’s only apparent evidence against her is an op-ed in a student newspaper.

Attempts from Donald Trump’s administration to keep her in custody
“will not deter me from my commitment to advocate for the rights of youth and children,”
she said in a statement through her attorney on Thursday.

Last year, Ozturk co-authored an op-ed in The Tufts Daily newspaper calling on the university to divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel in an effort to hold Israel accountable “for clear violations of international law.”
“Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide,”
says the op-ed, which was written with three other students and endorsed by 32 others.

Ozturk is working towards her doctorate at the Eliot-Pearson Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
She received her master’s degree in developmental psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University, where she was a Fulbright scholar
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ice-court-hearing-b2727114.html

"Just so it’s clear: It does not END with snatching people off the street on student visas who advocate positions the regime doesn't approve of—that is how it BEGINS."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech #Ozturk
/8

"As U.S. President Donald Trump pledges to deport 'millions and millions' of 'criminal aliens,' thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers, pulling crime-fighting resources away on other areas -- from drug trafficking and terrorism to sexual abuse and fraud."

~ Reuters

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech #Ozturk
/7

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/

"This [i.e., the kidnapping of Rumeysa Ozturk] is an illegitimate act of political kidnapping, straight out of the Pinochet-Videla-Ríos Montt playbook. And it is no longer an isolated incident."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech #Ozturk
/5

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64309330/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detained-ice/

A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered on Friday
✅barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support for Palestinians in Israel's war in Gaza and was detained by U.S. immigration officials this week.

#Rumeysa #Ozturk, 30, was taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities near her Massachusetts home on Tuesday, according to a video showing the arrest by masked federal agents. U.S. officials revoked her visa.

Her lawyer soon after sued to secure her release, and on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union joined her legal defense team, filing a revised lawsuit, opens new tab saying her detention violates her rights to free speech and due process.

Despite a Tuesday night order requiring the PhD student and Fulbright Scholar to not be moved out of Massachusetts without 48 hours' notice, she is now in Louisiana.

⭐️In Friday's order, opens new tab, U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston said that to provide time to resolve whether her court retained jurisdiction over the case, she was barring Ozturk's deportation temporarily.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-halts-deportation-turkish-student-tufts-2025-03-29/

#Rumeysa #Ozturk #CanaryMission

A different angle showing the #kidnapping of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.

(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter)

https://x.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859

The Trump administration has detained a Tufts University graduate student exactly one year after she coauthored a plea for "the equal dignity and humanity of all people," including Palestinians.

#Rumeysa #Ozturk, a native of Turkey,
💥was "ambushed" late Tuesday outside her apartment,
according to a statement that her attorney provided to The Boston Globe.

⚠️Neighbors had seen agents in unmarked cars monitoring her apartment for two days prior to the arrest, the outlet reported.

Her arrest comes after the pro-Israel group #CanaryMission flagged Ozturk for having "engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024."

That activism, according to the group, consisted entirely of co-authoring an op-ed in The Tufts Daily, a student newspaper,
in which she and three other graduate students called on the school to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide" and divest from companies with ties to Israel, as called for in resolutions passed by the student Senate.

"We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people," the students wrote in the article, published March 26, 2024.

Tufts University President Sunil Kumar acknowledged Ozturk's arrest in a Tuesday night statement that identified her only as an "international graduate student."

"From what we've been told subsequently, the student's visa has been terminated, and we seek to confirm whether that information is true," Kumar said.

Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk's attorney, told Salon that her client has a valid F-1 student visa and was "heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast" when she was detained by DHS agents outside her home.

"We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her. No charges have been filed against [her] that we are aware of," Khanbabai said in a statement.

In a statement to Salon, a Trump administration spokesperson asserted, without providing evidence, that "DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas." The spokesperson did not suggest Ozturk had committed any crime, and confirmed that she had permission to be in the U.S. as a foreign student, but said that a "visa is a privilege not a right."

"Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated," the spokesperson said. "This is commonsense security.”

As of Wednesday morning, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee database identified Ozturk as being "In ICE Custody." It did not list a location.

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/26/dhs-detains-grad-student-advocated-for-palestine-and-the-humanity-of-all-people/

30. Jahrestag: Gedenken an die Opfer des Brandanschlags von Solingen

In der Nacht auf den 29. Mai 1993 wurden in #Solingen fünf Frauen und Mädchen der Familie #Genç, Gürsün #Ince, Hatice Genç, Gülüstan #Öztürk, Hülya Genç und Saime Genç bei einem rassistischen #Brandanschlag getötet. 14 weitere Familienmitglieder erlitten zum Teil lebensgefährliche Verletzungen. Nach #Hoyerswerda, Rostock- #Lichtenhagen und #Mölln war dieser Anschlag ein weiterer trauriger Tiefpunkt einer langen Reihe deutschlandweiter Angriffe auf #Geflüchtete und Migrant*innen. Eine aggressive mediale #Kampagne hatte den #Rassismus geschürt und nur drei Tage vor dem Solinger Anschlag hatte trotz bundesweiter Proteste und #Demonstrationen der #Bundestag das #Asylrecht drastisch eingeschränkt. Beim #Prozess wegen des Brandanschlags gegen vier deutsche Jugendliche kam heraus, dass der Staat ihr Treiben gut im Blick gehabt hatte – der Leiter der #Kampfsportschule, in der die #Neonazis für ihre Aktionen trainiert hatten, war nämlich ein V-Mann des #Verfassungsschutz|es...

Anlässlich des 30. #Jahrestages von Solingen ist diese Fotostrecke den Opfern und Angehörigen der Familie Genç gewidmet. Vielen Dank an die Fotografen und an das #Greven Archiv digital, dass sie ihre Bilder zur Verfügung gestellt haben. (...)

https://www.trueten.de/archives/12758-30.-Jahrestag-Gedenken-an-die-Opfer-des-Brandanschlags-von-Solingen.html #Antifa #Antifaschismus #Gedenken