On Saturday, I explained why President Trump has himself to blame for the fact that federal judges have largely thwarted his attempt to summarily deport both illegal aliens and legal aliens tied to the unrest at Columbia University and other campuses following Hamas’s October 7 atrocities. Specifically,
The main example of the latter has been the effort to expel legal aliens. This morning, the Second Circuit federal appeals court in Manhattan ordered the government to return one of those aliens, the Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk, for habeas corpus proceedings in Vermont. Ozturk, a Ph.D. candidate who has been attending Tufts University in Massachusetts on an F-1 student visa, is challenging her arrest, detention, and transfer to Louisiana, where the administration intends to conduct her deportation proceedings
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