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.

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.