The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish student detained by immigration officers in Boston last month, was moved across multiple state lines as part of a “highly unusual” and “secretive” attempt to keep her from accessing her attorney or being near her home,

The President of Tufts University filed a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk, a student at the institution who is being detained by ICE. She was accused of supporting Hamas.

A federal judge has moved a case involving at Tufts University doctoral student being held at an immigration facility in Louisiana to Vermont

A federal judge ordered that the case of Rümeysa Öztürk, a graduate student at Tufts University, be moved to Vermont, where she was in ICE custody before being moved to Louisiana.

U.S. District Judge Denise Casper agreed with Öztürk's attorneys that a transfer to Vermont was warranted because that's where she was at the time of that filing.