A foreign student who coauthored an op-ed was arrested and put in deportation proceedings.
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Welcome to The Logoff: Today I’m focused on the Trump administration’s attempt to deport a foreign student without trial, seemingly as a punishment for her political views.
What’s the latest? On Tuesday, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside Boston arrested Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national and Tufts University PhD student who was in the US legally on a student visa. ICE is holding Ozturk in a Louisiana facility and plans to deport her. Ozturk’s lawyers have sued to stop the deportation, and the case is working its way through the courts.
Why is the administration trying to deport Ozturk? So far, the administration has not charged Ozturk with a crime nor presented any evidence that she engaged in criminal activity.
