The Ugly Deportation Case of Rumeysa Öztürk

Last spring, I wrote a couple of times (here and here) about the deportation case of a Turkish national named Rumeysa Öztürk, who has been a graduate student (a Ph.D. candidate) lawfully attending Tufts University in Massachusetts on a student visa. Without notice, immigration agents arrested her on the street and whisked her away to Louisiana for deportation hearings.

Lengthy legal proceedings have followed in the lower federal courts and, finally, in the Justice Department’s immigration tribunals. Finally last month (as the New York Times reported Tuesday), a DOJ immigration judge (IJ) concluded that there were insufficient grounds to order Öztürk’s deportation.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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Last spring, I wrote a couple of times (here and here) about the deportation case of a Turkish national named Rumeysa Öztürk, who has been a graduate student (a Ph.D. candidate) lawfully attending Tufts University in Massachusetts on a student visa. Without notice, immigration agents arrested her on the street and whisked her away to Louisiana for deportation hearings.

Lengthy legal proceedings have followed in the lower federal courts and, finally, in the Justice Department’s immigration tribunals. Finally last month (as the New York Times reported Tuesday), a DOJ immigration judge (IJ) concluded that there were insufficient grounds to order Öztürk’s deportation.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.