Judge gives Trump administration deadline to transfer detained anti-Israel student to Vermont

A federal judge gave the Trump administration a deadline of May 1 on Thursday to move detained Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk from Louisiana to Vermont. The government is attempting to deport her for allegedly engaging “in activities in support of Hamas.”

U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions denied the government’s request to pause the transfer as they appealed the decision to transfer Öztürk to the state where her habeas corpus petition challenging her detainment was filed.

Öztürk was arrested by Homeland Security officials in Somerville, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, on March 25. A video of the encounter, which saw plainclothes officers arrest her, went viral. She was accused of engaging “in activities in support of Hamas” after she wrote an op-ed that called Tufts

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