Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in Massachusetts and sent to the South Louisiana ICE processing center in the swamplands of Evangeline parish in Basile. Sending detainees to the cluster of remote immigration detention centers known as “Detention Alley” in the south is a common practice.

Tufts University has issued a declaration of support for international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody by the Department of Homeland Security last week. Ozturk was apprehended outside her off-campus apartment in Somerville,