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A federal court hearing is set to address the case of a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities.
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was grabbed by masked, plainclothes immigration officials as she walked along a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 25. She was removed from the state and remains in a detention center in Louisiana.
According to a petition filed on her behalf in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts on Wednesday, Ozturk's treatment was unusual because people arrested on civil immigration...
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