“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges.

Reporting Highlights

  • Odyssey: Rümeysa Öztürk’s arrest and detention reveal what President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign looks like on the street level.
  • Rendition: Immigration lawyers describe the case as a callback to the post-9/11 practice of federal agents grabbing Muslim suspects off the street.
  • Process: Öztürk was shipped from state to state — a journey, critics say, that makes legal challenges of such cases more difficult.