A Tufts University graduate student is in federal custody in Louisiana after being detained by ICE. Rumeysa Ozturk was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast yesterday when she was detained near her home in Somerville, MA www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... - ThreadSky

crampell.bsky.social • 4 days ago

A Tufts University graduate student is in federal custody in Louisiana after being detained by ICE. Rumeysa Ozturk was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast yesterday when she was detained near her home in Somerville, MA https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-26/tufts-international-graduate-student-taken-into-ice-custody

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jwenderoff.bsky.social•4 days ago

What are state AGs doing? WGBH reports: “Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell said her office is monitoring the developing situation.” Why isn’t she on her way to the LA detention facility with Ms. Ozturk’s lawyer?

brendanamartin.bsky.social•4 days ago

She’s Turkish. In Istanbul, tens of thousands are protesting a regime like ours, many of them students. Is Tufts responding in any way?

yallstopyelling.bsky.social•4 days ago

Now is a good time to find ICE agents and dox them

scorkran.bsky.social•4 days ago

Kidnapped. Not detained.

nevergonnakneel.bsky.social•4 days ago

PhD student. Fulbright Scholar. A real menace to society.

qlm326.bsky.social•4 days ago

And we all know eventually this “disappearing” will eventually apply to anyone Trump dislikes!

dmartinfahey.bsky.social•4 days ago

This should have every American in absolute outrage. Needs to go to court and get smashed.

flempire.bsky.social•4 days ago

A Secret Police kidnapping people is a bad sign in a country where society is suppose to be Free

jamkam6969.bsky.social•4 days ago

Here does this end? I shudder to think.

get-real.bsky.social•3 days ago

This may be radical but…here goes—STATES MUST DECLARE SOVEREIGNTY AND PREVENT ICE OR THE FEDS ENTERING THE STATE.

The time is here folks.

rmcgil.bsky.social•4 days ago

Good that we know where she is. Praying for her and all those who are unlawfully detained.

ellnb.bsky.social•4 days ago

The Gestapo is marching through our society in the guise of “immigration reform.”

steve.czmyt.com•4 days ago

The Gulag Bayou

putinsmells.bsky.social•4 days ago

ICE is just another word for gestapo.

man-w-no-name.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you know anyone particularly focused on "personal liberties" this might really piss that person off! He should do something about that!

mark-darson.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nazi detention. This is exactly how the Holocaust started. Wake up. People of different religions swept off the streets without impunity.

lardnar.bsky.social•4 days ago

How do they decide who to detain? Do they carry brown paint chips?

cramd.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just a white one. Makes it easier to carry. Before, ICE holes had to carry around a paint chip of each colour they did not like. New regulations allow for ICE holes to now use their own skin colour as a comparison.

twardell.bsky.social•4 days ago

She wasn't "detained". She was kidnapped by 6 masked men and women.

anon-api.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is not justice. This is kidnapping.

crampell.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3llccznpbvc2r

v-martin01.bsky.social•4 days ago

The thugs and brown shirts - probably the pardoned Jan 6 criminals.

sunfolk.bsky.social•4 days ago

Arm yourself, liberals.

excan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Chills down my spine

experimental22.bsky.social•4 days ago

It is a Nazi regime.

mjz1957.bsky.social•4 days ago

Being from MA, a Tufts grad (‘81), and a one-time resident of Somerville, I’m shocked that only one person can be heard speaking up against this sort of nacht und nebel abduction

hanshb.bsky.social•3 days ago

Gestapo

janicesun.bsky.social•4 days ago

He’s done it. Taken us back to McCarthy era.

adkstarvingartist.bsky.social•4 days ago

Saturday April 5th, 12pm. Push yourself away from your keyboard and join us in protest. We are on our own. Let them know we're pissed.
50501
Hands Off
Indivisible

rewinn.bsky.social•4 days ago

The purpose of these legalized kidnappers is to accustom us to future abuses.
If their intent were to expel her legally, they would have done it in an orderly manner.

melodyjoy67.bsky.social•4 days ago

WTF is Louisiana getting out of these poor souls being shipped down there?!? Must be something…

amorvence.bsky.social•4 days ago

It might not be the state of LA. There's probably a prison down there with a contract for the ppl ICE is disappearing. Remember when our gov't privatized prisons?

jeevmon.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is an ICE facility or ICE-contracted facility there. They're also trying to have any hearings contesting a detention in the Fifth Circuit, which is the Trumpiest circuit in the country.

melodyjoy67.bsky.social•3 days ago

I knew there was some god awful reason. Bastards.

twoofsix.bsky.social•4 days ago

ICE has a facility in Central Louisiana. Middle of nowhere.

https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/central-louisiana-ipc

amorvence.bsky.social•4 days ago

Exactly to my point. ICE detention centers are privately managed, former prisons. This is from a quick search. I'm sure there is info more recent than'23.
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/unchecked-growth-private-prison-corporations-and-immigration-detention-three-years-into-the-biden-administration

oldbrownshoe.bsky.social•4 days ago

The feeling of superiority.

chiefjoer.bsky.social•4 days ago

Is there any Dem with any balls to go get her?

oldbrownshoe.bsky.social•4 days ago

A few, but Chuck locked them up next to the razor blades and NyQuil at a DC Walgreens.

I’m hoping somebody calls the manager…

urband1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Folks, if you don't think this could happen to you then you're in for a rude awakening

adkstarvingartist.bsky.social•4 days ago

Saturday April 5th 12pm let them know we are pissed.

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