Politics May 09 Judge releases Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk who was detained by ICE A federal judge in Vermont on Friday released a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb, allowing her to return…
Nation May 07 Tufts student detained by ICE can be sent to Vermont for hearings, appeals court rules A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated and if she should be…
Nation May 06 Appeals court makes no immediate decision in detention cases of Tufts and Columbia students A federal appeals court has made no immediate decisions as it considers jurisdictional issues in the cases of students detained by immigration authorities.
Politics Apr 18 Detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont, judge rules A Tufts University student from Turkey being held in Louisiana must be returned to New England by May 1 to determine whether she was illegally detained by immigration officials for co-writing an op-ed piece in the student newspaper, a federal…
Politics Apr 17 Immigration judge denies bond for detained Tufts student from Turkey, her lawyers say The Department of Homeland Security presented one document to support their opposition to Rumeysa Ozturk's bond request: a one-paragraph State Department memo revoking her student visa, her lawyers said in the new court filing.
Nation Apr 14 Federal judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student's case Rumeysa Ozturk was taken by immigration officials as she was walking in a Boston suburb on March 25.
Politics Mar 27 Tufts student from Turkey threatened with deportation, latest Palestinian supporter swept up in crackdown Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was swiftly moved out of Massachusetts, a demonstration of how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is sending immigrants who are taken into custody to detention centers or deporting them altogether before…
Politics Mar 17 Doctor who was deported to Lebanon supported Hezbollah leader, Homeland Security officials say The department's statement, posted on social media, provides a possible explanation for Dr. Rasha Alawieh's deportation, which has sparked widespread alarm, especially after a federal judge ordered that she not be removed until a hearing could be held.
Nation Jan 22 Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont worked at the Pentagon during 9/11, family says Agent David Maland, 44, was killed Monday afternoon following a traffic stop, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said in a statement. A German national in the country on what the FBI called a current visa was killed.
Nation Jul 31 Storms bring new round of heavy flooding to Vermont with more downpours on the horizon Vermont’s governor says the latest storm to the hit the state was “much worse than a punch or a kick.”…