Immigration Judge Blocks Deportation of Anti-Israel Tufts Student
“This is more judicial activism at its core to keep a terrorist sympathizer in this country.”
Do you remember her? I fail to see how an immigration judge outranks the State Department on this.
The Hill reports:
Immigration judge rejects Trump administration bid to deport pro-Palestinian Tufts student
An immigration court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to deport Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish national and Tufts University student arrested nearly a year ago after she co-authored a pro-Palestinian op-ed in her student newspaper.
Öztürk’s lawyers revealed the news in a Monday update, saying the immigration court found the government “had not met its burden of proving removability” and terminated Öztürk’s deportation proceedings.
It marks a major defeat for the Trump administration in its push to deport foreign students involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy on college campuses.
The immigration court system is part of the executive branch, not the judiciary, and the government can appeal the decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. That board is also within the Department of Justice.
“This is more judicial activism at its core to keep a terrorist sympathizer in this country. We are under no obligation to admit them or let them stay here,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson said in a statement.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked a law that allows him to make someone deportable if he believes they pose potentially “serious adverse foreign policy consequences.” Rubio has also cited the provision to try to deport Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, among others.
Öztürk’s case captured national attention after her March 2025 arrest by plainclothes officers her near her Somerville, Mass., home was captured on video.
In justifying her deportation, the Trump administration has focused on a Tufts University student newspaper op-ed Öztürk bylined with three others supporting the Palestinian cause.
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So now the courts that ARE run by the Executive Branch are giving the CINC the same agita as the courts that AREN’T?
That is their job, within the executive branch. To give the rest of the executive an independent view on the law, just like any administrative law “judge”, or like the Security and Exchange Commission.
It remains the case that it’s unconstitutional for the government to do anything to someone, even something it can generally do, if its motive for doing it is to punish that person for exercising his constitutional rights.
I don’t see any articles identifying this idiot activist “immigration” judge. Couldn’t be another subversive Potatobrain/Autopen/Soetoro-Soros judge, could it?
Immigration “judges” are not elected, nor are they appointed directly by the president and confirmed by the senate, so the “Potatobrain/Autopen/Soetoro-Soros” doesn’t apply. They’re just civil servants, working for the DOJ, like any other DOJ employees. They operate within the department as an independent check on the rest of the department’s assumptions. Like proofreaders, or debuggers.