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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Case dropped against Tufts student who was grabbed off the street by ICE: ‘True justice will prevail’

An immigration court judge has terminated deportation proceedings against Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University scholar whose arrest last March by masked ICE agents on the street is among the defining images of the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.

The Department of Homeland Security failed to meet its burden to prove that the Turkish doctoral student needed to be deported, and an immigration court judge terminated the case, her lawyers told a federal appeals court Monday.

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