While she suffers with the repercussions of having her visa revoked by the Trump administration, which resulted in six weeks of imprisonment, a federal judge has let a Turkish student at Tufts University to return to research and teaching.
One of the earliest instances of the Trump administration targeting foreign-born students and activists engaged in pro-Palestinian activity was the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student researching children’s use of social media. Her university’s stance to Israel and the Gaza War was criticized in an opinion piece she co-wrote. Immigration enforcement authorities removed her in an unmarked car after she was captured on camera outside her Somerville home in March.
Since May, Öztürk has returned to the Tufts campus after leaving a Louisiana immigration detention facility. However, because her record in the government’s database of international students studying temporarily in the US was terminated, she has been unable to teach or take part in research as part of her studies.
Chief US District Judge Denise J. Casper stated in her decision on Monday that Öztürk is likely to prevail in her arguments that the dismissal was “arbitrary and capricious, contrary to law and in violation of the First Amendment.
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