Video shows arrest of Tufts University student for allegedly supporting Hamas

The Tufts University postgraduate pupil detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) successful Somerville, Massachusetts, this week is present being held successful Louisiana, according to 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 precocious learned and verified that Rumeysa Öztürk, the pupil who was detained by national migration authorities yesterday, is presently being held successful Louisiana," Kumar said successful a Thursday greeting statement. "We admit however frightening and distressing this concern is for her, her loved ones, and the larger assemblage present astatine Tufts, particularly our planetary students, staff, and module who whitethorn beryllium feeling susceptible oregon unsettled by these events."

He added that the "footage of Rumeysa’s arrest" released Wednesday "is disturbing."

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Tufts University President Sunil Kumar called footage of Rumeysa Ozturk's apprehension this week "disturbing."

"We basal with our Muslim students, particularly during their observance of Ramadan, arsenic we admit that Rumeysa was connected her mode to an Iftar gathering with friends astatine the Interfaith Center erstwhile she was detained," Kumar said. 

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell besides criticized the apprehension connected Wednesday.

"The footage of Rumeysa Ozturk’s apprehension – a pupil present legally – is disturbing," Campbell said successful a statement. "Based connected what we present know, it is alarming that the national medication chose to ambush and detain her, seemingly targeting a law-abiding idiosyncratic due to the fact that of her governmental views. This isn’t nationalist safety, it’s intimidation that will, and should, beryllium intimately scrutinized successful court. My bureau is intimately monitoring this substance arsenic it develops." 

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Fox News connected Wednesday that Ozturk was "granted the privilege to beryllium successful this state connected a visa."

"DHS and ICE investigations recovered Ozturk engaged successful activities successful enactment of Hamas, a overseas violent enactment that relishes the sidesplitting of Americans," the spokesperson said. "A visa is simply a privilege not a right. Glorifying and supporting terrorists who termination Americans is grounds for visa issuance to beryllium terminated. This is commonsense security."

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ICE confirmed Tufts University pupil Rumeysa Ozturk's apprehension to Fox News connected Wednesday.

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.

"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 connection connected Wednesday. "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."

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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 ineligible squad representing Ozturk told Fox News she had a valid F-1 visa presumption anterior to her arrest. 

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.

"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.

Kumar said Tufts is successful connection "with local, state, and national elected officials and anticipation that Rumeysa is provided the accidental to avail herself of her owed process rights."

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

"The assemblage is actively moving to enactment the Tufts assemblage arsenic it mobilizes its corporate resources and contacts to guarantee our students’ information and well-being," the assemblage president said.

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, "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."

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

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

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

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.

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"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 terrorists instrumentality up positions up of a hostage merchandise successful Deir al-Balah, cardinal Gaza Strip, Saturday Feb. 8, 2025. (AP)

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."

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.