Joanna Slater

United States

National Correspondent at The Washington Post

Reporter at @washingtonpost. Former India Bureau Chief. Previously: @globeandmail, @WSJ, FEER. Delhi, New York, Berlin, Mumbai, HK. @[email protected]

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Tufts student arrested by ICE freed from detention

5 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater

Tufts student arrested by ICE freed from detention (washingtonpost.com) Tufts student arrested by ICE freed from detention By Joanna Slater 2025050918153100 A Tufts University graduate student who was grabbed off the street in late March and detained for co-writing an opinion piece in a student newspaper was freed Friday after a federal judge ordered her release.
Detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont, appeals court rules

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater

Detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont, appeals court rules (washingtonpost.com) Detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont, appeals court rules By Joanna Slater 2025050718404100 A Tufts graduate student who has spent the past six weeks in a detention center in Louisiana for writing an opinion article in a student newspaper must be returned to Vermont for future hearings in her case, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Judge orders release of Columbia student arrested by ICE

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater

Judge orders release of Columbia student arrested by ICE (washingtonpost.com) Judge orders release of Columbia student arrested by ICE By Joanna Slater 2025043015462600 BURLINGTON, Vermont — A U.S. district judge on Wednesday ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent resident who was detained at his citizenship interview this month as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists by the Trump administration.
Columbia student arrested by ICE has deep well of support in Vermont

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater

Columbia student arrested by ICE has deep well of support in Vermont (washingtonpost.com) Columbia student arrested by ICE has deep well of support in Vermont By Joanna Slater 2025042310000300 HARTLAND, Vt. — The white steepled church in this tiny town was full, every seat taken and still more people standing at the back, all hoping to help the student they consider one of their own.
Turkish student grabbed by ICE feared for her life, court document says

1 month ago | unionleader.com | Joanna Slater

A Turkish graduate student detained outside her apartment by masked ICE agents last month was not told why she was being arrested and feared she was being abducted as she was transferred between cars and moved out of Massachusetts, a court document says. Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, did not know that the State Department had revoked her visa when she was apprehended on March 25 near Boston.
Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater

Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life (washingtonpost.com) Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life By Joanna Slater 2025041115490600 A Turkish graduate student detained outside her apartment by masked ICE agents last month was not told why she was being arrested and feared she was being abducted as she was transferred between cars and moved out of Massachusetts, a court document says.
Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Joanna Slater

Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life“I had never seen police approach and take someone away like this,” wrote Rumeysa Ozturk in a declaration from detention in Louisiana. A Turkish graduate student detained outside her apartment by masked ICE agents last month was not told why she was being arrested and feared she was being abducted …
How the Trump administration took aim at Maine

1 month ago | adn.com | Joanna Slater |Lisa Rein

CUMBERLAND, Maine - When the acting head of the Social Security Administration ordered the termination of two data collection contracts with Maine in late February, a senior official on his leadership team warned him that the move would increase fraud. That didn’t matter, the agency chief responded. It was more important to punish Maine’s Democratic governor Janet Mills. Mills was “disrespectful” and “unprofessional” during an event with President Donald Trump, wrote Leland Dudek in a Feb.
How the Trump administration took aim at Maine

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Joanna Slater |Lisa Rein

The move to cut a key service for new parents and a system that allows quick reporting of deaths - later reversed - was one of a series of measures targeting Maine taken by federal agencies following a brief but pointed exchange between Trump and Mills during a National Governors Association event at the White House on Feb. 21. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.
How the Trump administration took aim at Maine

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater |Lisa Rein

How the Trump administration took aim at Maine (washingtonpost.com) How the Trump administration took aim at Maine By Joanna Slater; Lisa Rein 2025040210005800 CUMBERLAND, Maine — When the acting head of the Social Security Administration ordered the termination of two data collection contracts with Maine in late February, a senior official on his leadership team warned him that the move would increase fraud. That didn't matter, the agency chief responded.