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 studentAn 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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