Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, was taken into custody by immigration officials on March 25.

Ozturk filed her case in Massachusetts, where she was arrested, but authorities moved her to Vermont and then Louisiana. She alleged in her court petition that she was targeted in retaliation for exercising her right to free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts, driven to Vermont and flown to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government was trying to argue her court case.