Öztürk, originally from Turkey, was arrested in late March, and authorities are seeking her deportation; her attorneys argue she was targeted solely for an op-ed she co-wrote in the Tufts student newspaper in support of Palestinians. The contents of the memo came out during the last day of witness testimony in a lawsuit brought by higher education organizations, including the American Association of University Professors, over the Trump administration’s policies of arresting and detaining international students and others engaged in pro-Palestinian activism. The Department of Homeland Security found no evidence that Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk engaged in antisemitic activity...
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