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‘National disgrace’: Democrats meet students in immigration detention in Louisiana
The visit is part of Democrats’ effort to highlight the plight of those targeted in Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
Members of Congress Visit Graduate Students Being Held in Louisiana
Five congressional Democrats on Tuesday traveled to Louisiana, where they met with two graduate students who have been ...
Mass. lawmakers visit with Rümeysa Özturk at Louisiana detention facility
Massachusetts lawmakers visited Louisiana on Tuesday to meet with the Tufts University student who's been detained there ...
Lawmakers visit detained Tufts student as Trump admin appeals return order
McGovern’s remarks followed a trip with Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley to a U.S. Customs and Immigration Detention ...
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Ozturk’s bail hearing in doubt as U.S. files appeal; Legislators visit detained students in Louisiana
The Department of Justice filed an appeal of last Friday’s decision in Rumeysa Ozturk’s case – a filing that usually takes ...
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MA lawmakers return from meeting with detained Tufts student in Louisiana
For the first time, members of Congress met with Rumeysa Ozturk, a 29-year-old PhD student at Tufts University being held ...
Federal government appeals order to send Rumeysa Öztürk to Vermont
The Justice Department is fighting a judge's ruling that Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk must be transferred back to ...
Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont
A federal judge has ordered that a Tufts University student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities in March ...
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Congressman Troy Carter & others tour ICE facility in Basile, meet face-to-face with Rumeysa Ozturk
The national debate over immigration is taking center stage in Acadiana. Congressman Troy Carter, D-Louisiana, led a tour of ...