"America is the greatest democracy in the world," Rumeysa Ozturk said. "I have faith in the American system of justice."
After being arrested by masked ICE agents, the State Department ruled that the Trump administration had no grounds to deport Turkish Tufts University student.
27 Jewish groups filed a brief supporting Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, condemning her detention as a misuse of antisemitism to silence free speech and protest.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department may have revoked more than 300 visas and warned that the Trump administration was looking every day for "these lunatics".
Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested days after writing on Palestinian rights.
The campaign could point to a larger shift in strategy for proponents of Israel boycotts.
"I am relieved that my Judaism is no longer on trial."
The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group at Tufts forwarded the legislation due to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) alleged links to Israel.
According to Hillel International’s guide to Jewish life on college campuses, 19% of undergraduate students at Tufts are Jewish.
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The student called the incident a “cowardly act of hatred and ignorance.”