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Tufts University petitioned a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk late Wednesday, some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign st...
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It took less than an hour for immigration agents to move Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk to New Hampshire after sweeping her off a street near the Somerville campus last week.
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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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