A federal judge moved the case of Rumeysa Özturk, a Tufts University graduate student, to a Vermont jurisdiction following a Justice Department request to place her in Louisiana.
Özturk was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Boston suburb of Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 25 and has been held in an immigration detention facility in Louisiana.
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