Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk was released from a Louisiana detention center Friday, six weeks after masked federal agents took her into custody amid the Trump administration’s effort to deport noncitizens who have protested against the war in Gaza.
It doesn’t mention it in the article but the administration cancelled her visa without notifying her 5 days before she was arrested. This is part of the reasoning they were using to detain her. Is her visa re-instated? If not, then she is now illegal and has been effectively deported, nonetheless.
She’s very well documented. If they revoked her visa, she’s here illegally. That doesn’t say anything about the legality of revoking her visa or the ethics of it, she’s not an illegal person, but she’s here illegally. And they’ll use that against her.
It doesn’t mention it in the article but the administration cancelled her visa without notifying her 5 days before she was arrested. This is part of the reasoning they were using to detain her. Is her visa re-instated? If not, then she is now illegal and has been effectively deported, nonetheless.
No human can be illegal. You mean undocumented (at no fault of her own)
She’s very well documented. If they revoked her visa, she’s here illegally. That doesn’t say anything about the legality of revoking her visa or the ethics of it, she’s not an illegal person, but she’s here illegally. And they’ll use that against her.