A federal judge in Vermont said he needed to determine whether the court has jurisdiction over Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk’s case. The post Vermont federal judge refuses request for ICE to release detained Tufts student on bail appeared first on Boston.

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in Massachusetts and sent to the South Louisiana ICE processing center in the swamplands of Evangeline parish in Basile. Sending detainees to the cluster of remote immigration detention centers known as “Detention Alley” in the south is a common practice.

"Efforts to target me because of my op-ed in the Tufts Daily calling for the equal dignity and humanity of all people will not deter me from my commitment to advocate for the rights of youth and children.