Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers

Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers

On March 9, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, sent an anxious text message to Najiba Akbar, the university’s former Muslim chaplain, with whom she had become close. “I recently learned that someone added all my information to a doxxing website called Canary Mission because of the op-ed published last March,” Ms. … Read more

Rubio Says He Has Revoked 300 or More Visas in Trump’s Deportation Push

Rubio Says He Has Revoked 300 or More Visas in Trump’s Deportation Push

Secretary of State Marco Rubio estimated that he had signed perhaps more than 300 letters revoking the visas of students, visitors and others to force their expulsion from the United States because of their foreign policy views or criminal activities. He has been signing letters daily to revoke visas since taking office in late January, … Read more

What We Know About the Detentions of Student Protesters

What We Know About the Detentions of Student Protesters

The Trump administration is trying to deport pro-Palestinian students and academics who are legally in the United States, a new front in its clash with elite schools over what it says is their failure to combat antisemitism. The White House asserts that these moves — many of which involve immigrants with visas and green cards … Read more

Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts

Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts

An international student in a graduate program at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, according to the university’s president. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, and administrators were “seeking to confirm whether that information is true,” the president, Sunil Kumar, wrote in … Read more