A federal judge has halted the deportation of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish PhD student at Tufts.

The reason for deportation?

ICE has accused her of supporting Hamas.

Judge Denise Casper said the court needs time to figure out if it even has jurisdiction.

So for now, Ozturk stays.

She was arrested on a Boston street in a viral video showing her stunned reaction.

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Homeland Security made the allegation but hasn’t shown any evidence yet.

New York Post reports:

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to deport a Tufts PhD student that they alleged is a supporter of Hamas.

US District Court Judge Denise Casper, an Obama appointee in the District of Massachusetts, has ruled that the Trump administration cannot proceed with deporting Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student from Turkey who was apprehended by ICE agents on Wednesday.

Court documents show Judge Casper is flexing her ability to “preserve existing conditions” while determining whether her court has jurisdiction in the matter at all.

Ozturk was apprehended by plainclothes ICE officers on a Boston street Tuesday in a viral video that showed her total shock as arresting officers took her phone from her hand and placed her in handcuffs.

The PHD student and Columbia Master’s Degree holder was taken to a facility in Louisiana — but is now being blocked from deportation.

The Department of Homeland Security alleged that Ozturk was a supporter of Hamas but has yet to provide any evidence to that effect.

Here’s a clip of her arrest:

Protests occurred not long after she was apprehended.

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Open Source posted on X:

Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk, the Turkish student who was detained:

“We revoked her visa. It’s an F-1 visa, I believe. We revoked it, and here’s why—I’ve said it everywhere, and I’ll say it again.

Let me be abundantly clear: If you apply for a student visa to come to the United States and you say you’re coming not just to study, but to participate in movements that vandalize universities, harass students, take over buildings, and cause chaos—we’re not giving you that visa.

If you lie, get the visa, and then engage in that kind of behavior once you’re here, we’re going to revoke it. And once your visa is revoked, you’re no longer legally in the United States. Like every country, we have the right to remove you. It’s that simple.

It’s crazy—stupid, even—for any country to let people in who say, ‘I’m going to your universities to riot, take over libraries, and harass people.’ I don’t care what movement you’re with. Why would any country allow that?

We gave you a visa to study and earn a degree—not to become a social activist tearing up our campuses. If you use your visa to do that, we’ll take it away. And I encourage every country to do the same.

Every country has the right to decide who enters as a visitor. If you invite me to your house for dinner and I start putting mud on your couch and spray-painting your kitchen, you’re going to kick me out. We’ll do the same if you come to the U.S. and cause a ruckus.

We don’t want that here. Go do it in your own country—but not in ours.”

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