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Fifth Column

US judge orders Trump administration to remove limits on anti-Israel Tufts student

2025-12-09

[IsraelTimes] Denise Casper concludes Rumeysa Ozturk is likely to succeed in proving ICE unlawfully terminated her record in key database of foreign students

A US federal judge on Monday cleared the way for Tufts University PhD student and pro-Paleostinian activist Rumeysa Ozturk

…the Turkish Fulbright Scholar, whose student visa was revoked for having co-authored an opinion piece for the Tufts University student newspaper a year earlier supporting terror organization Hamas and castigating the university for not divesting from Israel-related companies. I’ve not yet seen anything about the other three co-authors — perhaps that association is what got her in trouble. No doubt her naturalized, activist Iranian-American immigration lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai, is also somehow objectionable …

to work on campus after ordering President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
’s administration to restore her status in a key database used to track foreign students.

Chief US District Judge Denise Casper in Boston issued an injunction after concluding Ozturk was likely to succeed in proving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement unlawfully terminated her record in the database the same day that masked, plainclothes agents took her into custody in March.

That ICE-maintained database is called the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) and is used to track foreign students who enter on visas. The termination of a student’s record from that database prevents that person from being employed.

Ozturk, in a statement, said she was grateful for the ruling and that she hopes "that no one else experiences the injustices I have suffered."

The US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ozturk’s arrest on a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville, Massachusetts, was captured in a viral video that drew criticism from civil rights groups. She was detained after the State Department revoked her student visa as the Trump administration moved to crack down on non-citizens who engaged in anti-Israel and pro-Paleostinian activism on campuses.

The sole basis authorities provided for revoking her visa was an editorial she co-authored in Tufts’ student newspaper a year earlier, criticizing her school’s response to the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
The former Fulbright scholar was held for 45 days in a detention facility in Louisiana until a federal judge in Vermont, where she had briefly been held, ordered her immediately released after finding she raised a substantial claim that her detention constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of her free speech rights under the US Constitution’s First Amendment.

Following her release, Ozturk, a child development researcher, resumed her studies at Massachusetts-based Tufts.

But the administration’s refusal to restore her SEVIS record has prevented her from teaching or working as a research assistant, leading her lawyers to ask Casper to order its reinstatement so her academic and career development would not be further jeopardized in the final months before she graduates.

Casper, who was appointed by Democratic then-president Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
, said the administration had provided "shifting justifications" for terminating Ozturk’s SEVIS record, at times wrongly claiming she had failed to maintain her lawful, foreign student status.

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