The first man walked up to Rumeysa Ozturk like he was going to ask for directions.
He was the point man on an arrest team that whisked her off a Somerville, Massachusetts street for co-authoring a student op-ed. After 45 days in a Louisiana cell, an immigration judge ruled her status had been lawful all along. The Justice Department fired that judge last week. Ozturk flew home to Turkey Friday with her PhD, on her own timeline.
After her release, she told reporters she had “faith in the American system of justice.” The government settled only when it knew it would lose. Call your representatives through 5 Calls and Resistbot and demand Congress bar speech-based visa revocation.
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