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Federal judge orders case of Tufts student in ICE custody moved to Vermont

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Rumeysa Özturk , a Tufts University graduate student, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement .

A federal judge issued a Friday order transferring the case to a jurisdiction in Vermont in the “interest of justice” The judge denied the Justice Department’s petition to have the case heard in the Western District of Louisiana.