Tufts student returns to Massachusetts after release from immigration custody
BOSTON, May 10 (Reuters) - A Tufts University student from Turkey who was swept up in the campaign by President Donald Trump's administration to deport pro-Palestinian campus activists returned to Massachusetts on Saturday after spending more than six weeks in an immigration detention center in Louisiana.
Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested after co-writing an opinion piece criticizing her school's response to Israel's war in Gaza, told reporters after arriving at Logan International Airport in Boston that she was excited to get back to her studies and community after a judge ordered her immediately released on Friday.
"This has been a very difficult time for me," she said at a press conference with her lawyers and local members of Congress.
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"America is the greatest democracy in the world," she said. "I have faith in the American system of justice."
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