Trump’s Student Arrests, and the Lawsuit Fighting Them, Tread New Ground

The Trump administration’s efforts to deport foreign students who espoused pro-Palestinian views under a little-used foreign policy provision have no obvious legal parallel.

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An Iranian Student in U.S. Detention Makes a Hard Choice: Stay or Go Home

Few rallied around Alireza Doroudi, who spent weeks detained on murky charges. With hope he might win, but facing extended detention, he had to decide whether to keep fighting his case.

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Tufts Student Returns to Massachusetts After 6 Weeks in Immigration Detention

A federal judge had ordered the government to immediately release Rumeysa Ozturk, who was being held in a federal facility in Louisiana.

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Judge Orders Release of Tufts Student Detained by ICE

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, had published an essay about the war in Gaza. Immigration agents arrested her and sent her to a Louisiana detention center to await deportation proceedings.

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Detained Tufts Student Must Be Moved to Vermont, Court Rules

Rumeysa Ozturk, an international student from Turkey, was detained in Massachusetts in March and later taken to Louisiana. The ruling said she must be transferred within a week.

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Was First Amendment Violated in Student Arrests? Trump Lawyer Won’t Say

The Trump administration is focusing on logistical issues, not constitutional ones, in its efforts to keep several international students in detention. The tactic has effectively slowed some high-profile cases.

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5 Democrats Visit Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk in Louisiana

Five Democrats met with Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, who face deportation by the Trump administration.

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Lawsuit Aims to Broadly Halt Deportations of Foreign Students

A suit challenges the Trump administration’s campaign in four states and Puerto Rico, and seeks the reinstatement of terminated student visas.

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Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE

More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.

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Judge Orders Tufts Student’s Detention Case Moved to Vermont

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts, driven to Vermont and flown to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government was trying to argue her court case.

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