A federal judge allowed a graduate student from Turkey to continue her challenge to her arrest by immigration officers on a Massachusetts street last month, rejecting the Trump administration’s attempts to dismiss the case.
Ruymesa Ozturk’s case gained national attention after video of her arrest went viral, sparking denunciations from immigrant rights groups and demonstrations at Tufts University, where she had been a student.
District Judge Denise Casper described the arrest in disapproving terms in her ruling.
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She rejected the Justice Department’s request that the case be dismissed outright and also rejected an attempt to transfer the case to Louisiana, where Ms. Ozturk is being held.
Instead, the judge sent the case to the federal court in Vermont.
She also ordered the government not to
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