ICE detains Tufts University student amid Trump admin's campus crackdown

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained a Tufts University pupil successful Somerville, Massachusetts, according to the bureau and a connection from assemblage President Sunil Kumar.

ICE confirmed Rumeysa Ozturk's detention to Fox News connected Wednesday. She is primitively from Turkey.

"We person received reports that an planetary postgraduate pupil was taken into custody this evening by national authorities extracurricular an off-campus flat gathering successful Somerville," Kumar said successful a statement. "The assemblage had nary pre-knowledge of this incidental and did not stock immoderate accusation with national authorities anterior to the event, and the determination wherever this took spot is not affiliated with Tufts University."

Kumar noted that the schoolhouse was told Ozturk’s visa had been terminated, and the assemblage is looking into "whether that accusation is true."

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials person arrested a Tufts University postgraduate student. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe)

"The assemblage has nary further accusation astatine this clip astir the origin oregon circumstances of the student’s apprehension and is attempting to larn much astir the incident," Kumar said. "Following assemblage protocol, the Office of University Counsel volition assistance successful connecting the pupil to outer ineligible resources should the idiosyncratic petition our assistance."

The ineligible squad representing Ozturk told Fox News she had a valid F-1 visa presumption anterior to her arrest. They besides said nary charges person been filed against their lawsuit and are demanding her release.

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"Rumeysa was heading to conscionable with friends to interruption her Ramadan accelerated connected the evening of March 25th erstwhile she was detained adjacent her location successful Somerville, MA by DHS agents," Khanbabai Immigration Law told Fox News successful a statement. "We are unaware of her whereabouts and person not been capable to interaction her. No charges person been filed against Rumeysa to day that we are alert of."

The ineligible squad representing Rumeysa Ozturk told Fox News she had a valid F-1 visa presumption anterior to her arrest. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe)

On Tuesday night, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani granted a habeas petition from Ozturk's lawyers requesting she not beryllium removed retired of the District of Massachusetts.

The lawyers accidental nary charges person been filed against her astatine this clip and request her release. The ineligible teams accidental Ozturk has not been disciplined for immoderate engagement successful field protests but would not accidental if she has participated successful pro-Palestinian field protests.

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"We anticipation Rumeysa volition beryllium released immediately. Those who privation to enactment Rumeysa are invited to be a rally this evening successful Somerville," the Wednesday connection continued.

A rally volition beryllium held for Rumeysa Ozturk connected Wednesday night, according to her ineligible team. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe)

In March of past year, Ozturk co-authored an op-ed successful the Tufts Daily, a pupil newspaper, taking contented with the university's effect to respective resolutions passed by the Tufts Community Union Senate on March 4, 2024, writing, "demanding that the University acknowledge the Palestinian genocide, apologize for University President Sunil Kumar’s statements, disclose its investments and divest from companies with nonstop oregon indirect ties to Israel."

Ozturk was a aesculapian postgraduate pupil astatine the Tufts University Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development.

President Donald Trump connected Jan. 30 signed an enforcement bid to cancel the pupil visas of Hamas sympathizers connected assemblage campuses.

President Donald Trump, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conscionable astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Executive Order 13899 aims to combat the "unprecedented question of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and unit against our citizens, particularly successful our schools and connected our campuses," since Oct. 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas attacked Israel, sparking the opening of a 15-month warfare that has near tens of thousands of radical dead.

"To each the nonmigratory aliens who joined successful the pro-jihadist protests, we enactment you connected notice: travel 2025, we volition find you, and we volition deport you," the president said successful a Jan. 30 information expanse connected the enforcement order. "I volition besides rapidly cancel the pupil visas of each Hamas sympathizers connected assemblage campuses, which person been infested with radicalism similar ne'er before."

Hamas is simply a designated violent enactment that the Department of National Intelligence describes arsenic "the largest and astir susceptible militant radical successful the Palestinian territories and 1 of the territories’ 2 large governmental parties."

Hamas terrorists ticker arsenic 4 hostages are released to the Red Cross arsenic portion of a ceasefire woody betwixt Israel and Hamas. (TPS-IL)

The Trump medication has besides rescinded national grants from Columbia University implicit its alleged nonaccomplishment to code antisemitism connected campus.

"We recognize that tonight’s quality volition beryllium distressing to immoderate members of our community, peculiarly the members of our planetary community," Kumar said successful his statement. "We volition proceed to supply information, support, and resources successful the days up arsenic much details go disposable to us."

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The outgo of attendance astatine Tufts, earlier fiscal aid, is listed arsenic betwixt $80,000 and $90,000 connected the university's website.

Tufts is receiving $115.2 cardinal successful funds from the National Institutes of Health arsenic of fiscal twelvemonth 2025, the university's website says, including $88.3 cardinal successful nonstop costs and $26.9 cardinal successful facilities and administrative costs.

Fox News' Andrew Fone contributed to this report.