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Tufts officials call for ICE to release grad student

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“The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention,” wrote Tufts President Sunil Kumar, in a declaration se...
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Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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They’ve asked the judge to order that she be immediately returned to Massachusetts and released from custody.

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