Immigration and customs implementation (Ice) detained Tufts University student in Somerville, Massachusetts, according to the agency and statement by Sunil Kumar University President.
Ice confirmed the custody of Rumeys Ozturk to Fox News on Wednesday. It is originally from Turkey.
“We have received reports that an international graduate student tonight’s detention of federal authorities outside the residential building outside the campus in Somerville,” Kumar said in a statement. “The University had no knowledge of this incident before and did not share any data with the federal authorities before the event, and the place where this happened was not related to the Tufts University.”
Kumar noted that the school was said to have been abolished Ozturk’s visa, and the university studied “whether this information is true”.
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The IMigration and Customs officers arrested a graduate student at the Tufts University. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe)
“The University of this moment has no additional information about the cause or circumstances of the student and is trying to find out more about the incident,” Kumar said. “After the university protocol, the office of university counselors will help connect a student with external legal resources if an individual requests our help.”
A legal team representing Ozturk told Fox News to have Valid Visa F-1 status Before arrest. They also said that their client had not been charged with demanding that they were released.
“Rumeys headed to friends to quickly break Ramadan in the evening, March 25, when she was detained by Fox News near her home in Somerville, MA,” Khanbabai told Fox News Law on the Fox News. “We are not aware of her stay and we have not been able to contact her. There has been no charges that we are aware of.”
A legal team that represents Rumeys Ozturk told Fox News that it had a valid F-1 visa status before arrest. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe)
On Tuesday night, the judge of the US District Court Indira Talwani approved the request of Habeas from Ozturk’s lawyers who asked her not to be removed from the Massachusetts district.
Attorneys say no charges have not been filed against her at that time and demand that he be released. Legal teams say that Ozturk was not disciplined because of any involvement in the campus protests, but would not say whether she participated in the protests of the Pro-Palestinian campuses.
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“We hope Rumeys will be released immediately. Those who want to support Rumeys are welcome to attend a rally in Somerville tonight,” the statement continued on Wednesday.
The rally will be held for Rumeys Ozturk on Wednesday night, according to her legal team. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe)
In March last year, Ozturk is a co-author of the Tufts daily daily, a student newspaper, taking into question the University’s response to several resolutions on March 4, 2024, brought the Senate of the TUFTS Community, wrote: “demands that the University recognize investments in Institutets, apologies to university states, apologies to university countries, Sunments, at the University President, in Investments Sunments, is exposed to the University States of Israel. “
Ozturk was a graduate student at the University of Tufts Eliot-Parson Department of Studying a Child and Human Development.
President Donald Trump on January 30 Hamas sympathizers at the college campuses.
President Donald Trump, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the White House in Washington, DC, February 4, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The 13899 executive order aims to fight “unprecedented wave of awful anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools and in our campuses,” from October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, launching the beginning of a 15-month war.
“All residential aliens who joined in Pro-Jihadist protests, We informed you: Come in 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you, “said the President in the Fact of January 30 at the Executive Command.” I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on the college campuses, who have been infected with radicalism as never before. “
Hamas is a determined terrorist organization That the Department of National Intelligence describes as “the largest and most capable militant group in Palestinian territories and one of the two major political parties of the territory.”
Hamas terrorists see that four hostages have been released on the Red Cross as part of an agreement on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. (TPS-Il)
Trump’s administration also has abolished federal support from Columbia University During his alleged failure to solve anti -Semitism in the campus.
“We realize that tonight’s news will be disturbing for some members of our community, especially members of our international community,” Kumar said in his statement. “We will continue to provide information, support and resources in the coming days because more details become available to us.”
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The cost of attending Tufts, before financial aid, there are between $ 80,000 and $ 90,000 on University website.
Tufts receives $ 115.2 million from the National Health Institutes of the Fiscal Year in 2025, the University website says, including $ 88.3 million of direct costs and $ 26.9 million in facilities and administrative costs.
Fox News’ Andrew Fone contributed to this report.
