Within an hour of sweeping Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk off a sidewalk near the Somerville campus last week, immigration agents were quickly on the move.

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in Massachusetts and sent to the South Louisiana ICE processing center in the swamplands of Evangeline parish in Basile. Sending detainees to the cluster of remote immigration detention centers known as “Detention Alley” in the south is a common practice.

After ICE agents arrested her in Somerville, Rümeysa Öztürk was moved rapidly to New Hampshire, Vermont, and then flown to Louisiana.

U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she b

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.

Protesters gathered to denounce the detention of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was apprehended by masked immigration agents last week.

As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., professor Daniel Kanstroom discusses the law — and the human cost. He says the round-ups are designed to "send a message."

The Service Employees International Union rallied Tuesday in downtown Boston for the release of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Attorney General Andrea Campbell attended.

An international University of Minnesota graduate student who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last week, was taken into custody because of a prior drunken driving incident,