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“I am a Ph.D. student working with children and youth,” Öztürk said in a statement dictated to her attorney.
From Boston.com
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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They’ve asked the judge to order that she be immediately returned to Massachusetts and released from custody.
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