A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she deals with the consequences of having her visa revoked by the Trump administration, leading to six weeks of detention.

The arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student studying children’s relationship to social media, was among the first as the Trump administration began targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy. She had co-authored an op-ed criticizing her university’s response to Israel and the war in Gaza. Caught on video in March outside her Somerville residence, immigration enforcement officers took her away in an unmarked vehicle.

Öztürk has been out of a Louisiana immigrant detention center since May and back on the Tufts campus. But she’s been unable to teach or participate in research as part of her studies because of the termination of her record in the government’s database of foreign students studying temporarily in the US.

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          Biden was fully onboard with the skull mashing. And the genocide. I don’t care about your semantics to begin with, the genocide is what matters. Ozturk is a minor issue compared to that.

          At least I don’t need to hear Matt Miller anymore.

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              Do you know what Leahy law is? Biden utterly destroyed US law. Also Israel didn’t care who won. Trump looks like the worst option for them because now Israel is losing the Democrats.