The student tofts returns to Massachusetts after 6 weeks in immigration detention

Rumeysa Ozturk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday evening, eyes gushing of joy and gratitude at the end of her six -week odyssey in police custody, a case that aroused indignation at the repression of the immigration of President Trump.

A flight carrying Ms. Ozturk, a Turkish Citizen Student at TUFTS University with a student visa, said one day of Boston Logan International Airport after a Federal Judge of Vermont has ordered that it is immediately released from a detention center in Louisiana.

Speaking in a room in the airport, she made a smile and looked happy and relaxed, but has also become visibly emotional sometimes. Ms. Ozturk thanked the supporters for their kindness and expressed her love for the country who imprisoned her and always tries to deport her.

“America is the greatest democracy in the world,” she said, adding: “I have confidence in the American justice system.”

Ms. Ozturk, a fifth year doctorate student, was part of more than a thousand international students whose visas were canceled by the federal government and who have been expelled. The movements occurred while the Trump administration increased its attack on higher education, saying that its objective was to eliminate anti -Semitism.

Ms. Ozturk had written an opinion article in the student newspaper criticizing the university’s response to pro-Palestinian requests. Her supporters denied that she was anti -Semitic and said that she had been detained in retaliation for her speech in violation of the first amendment.