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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kathy McCormack

Judge not waiting for transfer of Tufts University student detained by ICE to hold bail hearing

Immigration Students Detained - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A federal judge in Vermont has decided not to wait for the transfer of a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center to schedule a bail hearing Friday, more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb.

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, is expected to appear remotely at the hearing in Burlington.

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