I immigrate and customs application (ICE) Student of the University of Tats In Sompellus, Massachusetts, according to the agency and a statement from the university president, Sonel Kumar.
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“We have received reports that an international high school student had been detained this evening by the federal authorities outside a residential building outside the campus in Summeril,” Kumar said in a statement. “The university had no prior knowledge of this incident and did not share any information with the federal authorities before the event, and the location in which there was no affiliation to the University of Tafs.”
Komar noted that the school was informed of the Ozturk visa, and that the university is looking for “whether this information is correct.”
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Immigration and Customs enforcement officials arrested a student of graduate studies at the University of Tafs. (Susan Crater/Boston Globe)
Kumar said: “The university has no additional information at this time about the reason or circumstances of the student's fear and is trying to learn more about the accident.” “After the university protocol, the university’s advisor’s office will help the student to external legal resources if the individual requests our assistance.”
The legal team, which represents Oztuk, told Fox News that she had it F-1 visa case Before her arrest. They also said that no charges were brought against their client and demanded that they be released.
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“Romisis was heading to meet friends to break her Ramadan fasting on the evening of March 25, when she was detained near her home in Summerille, Massachusetts by agents of the Ministry of National Security,” said the immigration law in Khanabayi told the Fox News in a statement. “We are unaware of its whereabouts and we have not been able to contact her. No charges have been brought against Romisa yet we realize.”
The legal team, which represents Romisis Ozturk, told Fox News that she had obtained a valid F-1 visa before her arrest. (Susan Crater/Boston Globe)
On Tuesday night, the American provincial court judge, Indira Talwani, gave a petition from Ozturk lawyers asking not to be removed from Massachusetts.
Lawyers say that no charges have been brought against her at this time and are asking for her release. The legal teams say that Ozturk was not disciplined because of any involvement in the campus protests, but she did not say whether she had participated in the pro -Palestinian campus protests.
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“We hope that Rumeysa will be released immediately. Those who want to support Rumeysa are invited to attend the march of this evening in Sompeel,” a statement on Wednesday continued.
A march will be held against Romisis Ozturk on Wednesday evening, according to her legal team. (Susan Crater/Boston Globe)
In March of last year, Ozturk participated in writing an article in Tuffs Daily, a student newspaper, facing a problem in the university's response to many decisions approved by the Senate at Union Community Community on March 4, 2024, and wrote, “He demands the university to check it in the extermination imposed on the guidance, accustomed to reporting it. Israel.”
Oztuk was a medical student student at Tuffs University Eliot-PEARSON Department of Children's Study and Human Development.
On January 30, President Donald Trump signed an executive request to cancel student visas Poisoned in Hamas on the campus of universities.
President Donald Trump, the right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meet at the White House in Washington, DC, February 4, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The executive order 13899 aims to combat the “unprecedented wave from the vast and anti -Semitic discrimination, sabotage and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools and in our deprivation,” since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, which led to the beginning of the 15 -month war that left thousands of people.
For all the resident foreigners who joined in Protests supporting jihadi, “Come to 2025, we will find you, and Sindchk,” the president said in a realistic newspaper on January 30.
Hamas is a dedicated terrorist organization The Ministry of National Intelligence describes it as “the largest and most capable group in the Palestinian territories and one of the main political parties of the regions.”
Hamas terrorists are watching, as four hostages are released on the Red Cross as part of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. (Tps IL)
Trump administration also He canceled federal scholarships from Columbia University Its alleged failure to address anti -Semitism on the campus.
“We realize that tonight's news will be sad for some members of our society, especially members of our international society,” Kumar said in his statement. “We will continue to provide information, support and resources in the coming days with more details available to us.”
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The cost of attendance is included in Tuffs, before financial aid, between $ 80,000 and $ 90,000 on University website.
Tuffs receives $ 115.2 million of funds from the National Health Institutes from the fiscal year 2025, says the university website, including $ 88.3 million in direct costs and $ 26.9 million in facilities and administrative costs.
Andrew von in Fox News contributed to this report.
