Turkish student at Tufts detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

President Trump promised to arrest protesters an his administration has.  A lawsuit by the American Association of University Professors challenges the arrests and deportation threats.

A video of the arrest of a foreign student is jarring, to say the least.

The Associated Press reports that a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts in Massachusetts has been arrested and detained by the Department of Homeland Security.  Rumeysa Ozturk had just left her home when she was stopped, her attorney in papers filed in the U.S. District Court in Boston. 

Watch a video of the arrest of above. 

UPDATE (March 28):  NPR reports that, to “crack down on student activists who support Palestinians, the U.S. has revoked hundreds of visas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday at a press conference. He is delivering on President Trump’s promise to deport noncitizens whose activism he claims supports Hamas terrorism and is antisemitic. This week, over a thousand people outside of Boston took to the streets to call on the government to free Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk. Federal agents in plain clothes and face masks arrested her.”

According to NPR, Ozturk published an op-ed last year in the student paper criticizing her school’s leaders for not condemning the war in Gaza. The Department of Homeland Security said that Ozturk “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization.” “Her lawyers say the allegations are baseless. Because Rubio revoked hundreds of these activists’ visas, they became immediately deportable.”

KJ