Immigration court declines to deport Tufts student targeted by ICE over op-ed

The Courthouse News Service reports that an immigration judge has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to deport Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University Ph.D. student who was arrested and detained for six weeks for a supposedly anti-Israel op-ed in the school’s paper.

According to Ozturk, who wrote to a federal appeals court on Monday to provide an update on her case, the immigration court terminated her removal proceedings.

“The immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Ozturk,” she wrote.

Ozturk is a Turkish national in the United States on a student visa,