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5 days ago | 
nbcnews.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Minyvonne Burke
Rumeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student detained by immigration agents in March, was ordered to be released from ICE custody following a hearing Friday. "Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. She’s also free to travel to Massachusetts and Vermont as she sees fit, and I am not going to put a travel restriction on her, because, frankly, I don’t find that she poses any risk of flight," the judge said.
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5 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins
Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk who had been held since she was detained by immigration agents in March was freed from ICE custody Friday evening, hours after a federal judge ordered her release. "Öztürk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. She’s also free to travel to Massachusetts and Vermont as she sees fit, and I am not going to put a travel restriction on her, because, frankly, I don’t find that she poses any risk of flight," Judge William K.
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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes
A lawyer for the federal government and an appeals judge got into a heated exchange on Tuesday when the lawyer could not answer whether detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk's free speech is protected. Öztürk, who is from Turkey, was apprehended by immigration authorities on the streets of a Boston suburb on March 25.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcdfw.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi is free on bail after a judge ordered his release from federal immigration custody on Wednesday, weeks after armed DHS agents detained him in Vermont during his naturalization interview. Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained April 14 and had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, the Northwest State Correctional Facility, in St. Albans, Vermont.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Kimmy Yam |Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins
After thousands of international students abruptly lost their legal statuses in the past few months, the Department of Homeland Security offered some insight Tuesday into how some of the terminations were decided.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnbc.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes
Mohsen Mahdawi speaks at a protest on the Columbia University campus on November 9, 2023 in New York City. Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi is free on bail after a judge ordered his release from federal immigration custody on Wednesday, weeks after armed DHS agents detained him in Vermont during his naturalization interview.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcwashington.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes
Mukta Joshi/Getty ImagesA judge ordered Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released from federal immigration custody on Wednesday. Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained April 14 by armed DHS agents during his naturalization interview in Vermont to become a U.S. citizen. "I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you," Mahdawi said outside the Vermont courtroom.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes
A judge ordered Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi to be released from federal immigration custody on Wednesday. Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained April 14 by armed DHS agents during his naturalization interview in Vermont to become a U.S. citizen. "I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you," Mahdawi said outside the Vermont courtroom.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes
10 hours agoJudge Deals Humiliating Blow to ICE Barbie on Detained Columbia StudentKristi Noem has sicced federal agents on foreign students who were involved in campus protests. Now green card holder Mohsen Mahdawi has been freed.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi is free on bail after a judge ordered his release from federal immigration custody Wednesday, weeks after armed DHS agents detained him in Vermont during his naturalization interview. Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained April 14 and had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, the Northwest State Correctional Facility, in St. Albans, Vermont.
