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Bulwark Takes

Trump Defeated! Detained Student Freed After Court Order!

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A recent federal appeals court ruling has mandated that the Trump administration transfer Rumeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University, from an ICE detention center in Louisiana.

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0:00.0

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0:25.7

great news, big news. Ramesa Ozturk, who is the graduate student from Tufts, who was

0:32.4

snatched off the street by masked and unidentified ice officers and whipped off to present. A judge has just ruled

0:43.1

that she must have bail and be released. Ben, this is one of those small victories that feels like

0:51.4

a huge one. Yeah, it does. You know, it'll be great if we actually

0:56.1

see her partially because she's still in Louisiana. She was arrested in New England, right,

1:01.7

in Boston, or in Cambridge or Metro Boston. Somerset, in Somerset, where she was a student,

1:07.6

and of course, whisked off a thousand miles away to Louisiana, as in so many of these cases, the Trump administration has done. So she was just testifying in her bail hearing by Zoom from Louisiana. The judge was the order that she has to be released. Does that mean they have to bring her home? I don't know. But hopefully she'll see the sun soon. Well, this is, yeah, so this is what's going on here.

1:29.0

I want to set the stage here for people a little bit.

1:31.1

The government has fought every single aspect of this for no reason.

1:38.2

So, I mean, let's just start from the beginning, right?

1:40.0

So Oz Turk has her legal status revoked personally by Marco Rubio.

1:49.2

Instead of informing her that her legal status has changed and telling her that, you know,

1:54.7

the government expects her to leave the country within X number of days,

1:59.2

which would be something normal you would do for somebody

2:01.7

who is not a criminal, hasn't done anything wrong, is fully integrated.

2:05.2

She's the middle of a PhD program, right?

2:07.5

Yeah.

2:07.6

She's not, it's not like she's going to go underground, you know, she's not going to go on

2:12.0

the lamb.

2:14.1

What are they afraid to flee?

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