Samantha Gross
Politics Reporter at The Boston Globe
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3 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross
When people ask Jill Seeber what it’s like to be an immigration lawyer in the current political moment, she doesn‘t even know where to start. “There’s no way to distill it and give someone an accurate depiction,” she said. Like the thousands of immigration lawyers across the country, Seebel and her team have been working overtime since the Trump administration began its sweeping and severe crackdown on immigrants in January.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross
Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral candidate student, has endured crowded and contaminated dorms, 45 minute-long asthma attacks, and uncontrollable coughing while being held in federal immigration detention in rural Louisiana, she said in new court filings. “It has become progressively harder to recover from these asthma attacks while in detention,” said Öztürk, who was picked up by federal agents in March in Somerville.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross |Nick Stoico
Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University graduate student from Turkey being held in an immigration facility in Louisiana, must be returned to Vermont by May 1, a federal judge ruled Friday. Judge William K. Sessions III has set a bail hearing for May 9 in federal court in Vermont, where Öztürk was first taken after her arrest in Somerville by federal agents in late March, before being sent to Louisiana.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Samantha Gross
A federal immigrationjudge Wednesday denied bond to Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts graduate student who was taken into custody by immigration enforcement agents last month in Somerville and whisked off to a detention facility in Louisiana. During the immigration hearing in Louisiana, which was closed to the press, government lawyers contended that Öztürk was both “a flight risk and a danger to the community,” according to a document filed by her lawyer in a separate case in Vermont.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser |Samantha Gross
At first it was just a handful of students with some connection to pro-Palestinian activity, then dozens more, many of whom had no connection to the protest movement. Now the Trump administration has abruptly terminated the legal status of nearly 5,000 international students and scholars across the country, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association, setting off waves of fear on campuses around the country.
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