After her visa was revoked, the student was arrested by Plain Cross officials.
The federal court of appeals ruled that Tufts University students must return to Vermont after being arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 7th and sent to Louisiana.
“The Vermont area is likely to be the right place to award Ozturk’s habeas pursuit petition.
OP-ED called for Tuft to “allow the Palestinian genocide…disclose its investment and sell it from a company with direct or indirect ties with Israel.”
After her arrest, she was first transported to Methuen, Massachusetts, and then to the Icefield office in St. Albans, Vermont.
At about 10:55pm the evening of her arrest, US District Judge Dennis Casper ordered the government not to relocate Ozturk without notifying the court.
However, she flew to Louisiana at 4am and was detained there because she “didn’t have any available bed space” at the New England immigration facility.
She has been detained in an ice facility in Basil, Louisiana since then.
Government lawyers testified that it is unclear whether the court’s order had been relayed to relevant authorities before Ozturk’s transfer.
Oztark’s lawyers alleged in court filings that her visa was revoked without notifying her.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on March 27 that Ozteruk’s visa had been revoked after participating in “movements involved in destroying universities, harassing students, taking over buildings and creating a disturbance.”
“If you lie to us and get a visa and enter the United States, then if that visa participates in such an activity, we will take away your visa,” Rubio said.
“And if you lose your visa, you are no longer legally in the United States. We have the right to remove you from our country.”
Homeland Security Advisor Tricia McLaughlin told the Epoch Times that student visas and permission to study on the US are “a privilege that is not a right.”
“Today’s ruling will not prevent Ozturk’s continued detention,” she issued an email statement.
“And we will continue to fight for the arrest, detention and removal of aliens who have no right to be in this country.”
Zachary Stieber CoI contributed to this report.
