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Turkish grad student who co-authored anti-Israel op-ed at Tufts self-deports after legal battle with DHS
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University medical graduate student from Turkey whose charges were dropped after DHS detained her for allegedly «[engaging] in activities in support of Hamas,» has self-deported to Turkey, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Ozturk self-deported from the U.S. late Thursday night on a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, according to sources familiar.
Ozturk was detained by ICE in Somerville, Massachusetts, in March 2025, sparking a battle between the Trump administration and a federal judge over her detainment.
The Tufts graduate student was living in the U.S. under an F-1 student visa, which the Trump administration revoked around March 21, 2025. At the time her visa was revoked, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration were cracking down on student visas for students who were involved in protests and demonstrations regarding Israel and Palestine.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at the Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay in Cernay-la-Ville, France, on March 27, 2026. (Thomas Trutschel/Photothek)
«After 13 years of dedicated study, I am very proud to have completed my Ph.D. and to return home on my own timeline,» Ozturk said in a statement. «The time stolen from me by the U.S. government belongs not just to me, but to the children and youth I have dedicated my life to advocating for. With them in mind, I am choosing to return home as planned to continue my career as a woman scholar without losing more time to the state-imposed violence and hostility I have experienced in the United States – all for nothing more than co-signing an op-ed advocating for Palestinian rights.»
Ozturk co-authored an opinion piece on March 26, 2024 that was published in Tufts Daily, a student newspaper on campus.
«Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide,» the op-ed read.
The authors, including Ozturk, were critical of the university’s response to anti-Israel protests, saying that the university should publicly acknowledge Palestinian suffering.
Rubio specifically referenced opinion pieces in a statement surrounding the revoking of student visas, notably after the arrest of Ozturk on March 25, 2025.
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«If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you’re coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus — we’re not going to give you a visa,» Rubio said.
Trump’s Department of Justice also weighed in on Ozturk’s self-deportation.
«Attending elite colleges and universities in the United States is a privilege afforded to foreign students who respect our values and follow our laws,» a DOJ official told Fox News. «Rümeysa Öztürk chose not to abide by those simple conditions, and as a result left the United States – something the Administration sought to accomplish from the beginning. We will continue to seek the deportation of any foreign student who abuses their opportunity to study in America by engaging in vile antisemitism, harassment, or other illegal behavior.»
Following Ozturk’s arrest, she was transferred to Methuen, Mass., then Lebanon, New Hampshire, and Vermont before she was sent to the South Louisiana ICE processing facility, according to reports.
Protests erupted at Tufts and across the country over her arrest, and two months later she was released on bail.
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Rumeysa Ozturk on an apple-picking trip in 2021. (AP Photo) (AP)
The legal battle continued between the Trump administration and Ozturk, who was legally represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), until Feb. 9 when Biden-appointed Boston immigration Judge Roopal Patel terminated deportation proceedings.
Patel ruled that the Department of Homeland Security lacked the legal grounds to deport her.
«I grieve for the many human beings who do not get to see the mistreatment they have faced brought into the light,» Ozturk said in a statement released by her attorneys after the ruling. «When we openly talk about the many injustices around us, including the treatment of immigrants and others who have been targeted and thrown in for-profit ICE prisons, as well as what is happening in Gaza, true justice will prevail.»
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The Trump Department of Justice fired Patel, among other immigration judges, last week.
President Donald Trump spoke to reporters outside the Oval Office at the White House on April 13, in Washington, D.C., after declining to apologize for remarks criticizing Pope Leo XIV. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Since Patel ruled as an immigration judge and not a federal Article III judge, the Trump administration and the executive branch has authority over her tenure.
The White House issued a press release on April 9, titled: «Era of Amnesty Is Over: President Trump Restores Rule of Law to Immigration Courts,» in which the administration touted «the most aggressive and successful immigration enforcement overhaul in modern history.»
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«President Trump promised to end the open borders nightmare — and he is delivering on that promise with unrelenting force. The era of catch-and-release, mass releases, and activist judicial amnesty is over,» the White House statement reads.
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GOP can’t agree on key part of Trump’s housing affordability push as infighting continues
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President Donald Trump is leaning on Congress to tee up an affordability win ahead of November’s midterm elections, but entrenched GOP disagreement on a sweeping housing proposal threatens to derail it.
Trump on Monday called on the House to swiftly approve Senate-passed legislation aimed at easing housing affordability that has languished in the lower chamber for several months. House Republicans, however, have balked at that request and are pitching a rival plan.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., teased earlier in the week that Republicans and Democrats would come together to bring a «bipartisan, bicameral bill to the president’s desk.»
«I think everybody feels like it’s important, so we’re just working out some nuances,» Johnson said.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks at a press conference with House Republican leaders at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2026. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Senior House lawmakers on Thursday unveiled a modified version of the Senate’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which is expected to receive a vote in the lower chamber as early as next week.
Any changes to the Senate’s proposal would force the upper chamber to consider the measure again, prolonging the timeline lawmakers can send legislation to Trump’s desk.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., one of the chief architects of the Senate’s bill, declined to say whether she was speaking with her counterparts in the House about tweaks to the bill, and argued that lawmakers were running out of time to do something.
«There’s a housing crisis out there,» Warren said. «This bill can pass today if the House would just put it on the floor and vote on it. We need to get started, and if the House has more ideas than they’d like to add, start another bill.»
Some GOP lawmakers are not sweating the wait.
«We cannot take the Senate bill to the floor,» House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., told Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this week.
The political dynamics are much different in the Senate, however. And the housing bill passed with fewer than a dozen defectors in March — a rare feat in such a hyper-partisan Congress.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., argued that the easiest route to putting the legislation on Trump’s desk is passing the Senate’s version.
«It’s been sitting over there for a while and the president’s weighed in on it. I think, you know, the White House made it clear, they would like to see the House pick up and pass the Senate bill,» Thune said. «We’ve done what we can do. It’s in the court of the House now.»
The House product struck out a controversial provision taking aim at the build-to-rent market that drew the opposition of conservatives, who argued the language amounted to excessive government interference in the housing market.
The clause in the Senate’s proposal would have specifically required some developers to sell single-family homes built for the purpose of renting within seven years after construction. The build-to-rent industry and opponents of the provision argued their properties provide a more affordable option for some Americans priced out of the housing market and could imperil the supply of rentals across the country.
«We’ve got to make sure we do it in a right way that continues to keep free markets,» Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, said, adding that the clause in the Senate bill could make it «impossible» for some people to access housing.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are pitching rival housing bills as President Donald Trump looks for a legislative win on affordability. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Kent Nishimura/Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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The proposal, however, would also weaken a ban on large institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes — a priority of the Trump administration.
The House’s rival housing bill notably preserves a ban on central bank digital currencies (CBDC) through 2030 that was included in the Senate’s legislation.
House conservatives raged at the Senate bill for stopping short of enacting a permanent CBDC ban — a top priority of GOP privacy hawks, who have sought to add the language to various legislative vehicles.
«It has to be permanent,» Cloud said. «We’ve got to put the nail in the coffin on it.»
House Financial Services Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., a co-author of the House’s rival housing package, said he shared Trump’s goal of expanding access to affordable homeownership in a statement Thursday.
«It cuts unnecessary barriers to new home construction, modernizes HUD programs, and allows banks to more freely deploy funding into their communities,» Hill said regarding the lower chamber’s proposal. «We must get this right — and I am committed to working hard to do that.»
Not everyone in the Senate is upset by the House’s decision to modify the bill.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., was one of the few lawmakers to vote against the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and told Fox News Digital that housing affordability isn’t something that’s dictated by the federal government.
Prospective buyers arrive during an open house in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., on May 9, 2026, amid rising mortgage rates that could slow the spring home sales season. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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«If you wanted to actually reduce housing costs, it’s local governments who are gonna have to allow more houses to be built,» Scott said.
The legislative standoff comes as a recent Fox News poll found that nearly 80% of voters said housing costs were a problem for them or their family. The same survey also found that Democrats hold a lead over Republicans on inflation and the economy.
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Gremios amenazan con bloquear los accesos a los tres estadios de México en los que se jugará el Mundial
A menos de un mes del comienzo del Mundial, un combativo gremio docente y distintas organizaciones sindicales y sociales amenazan con bloquear los accesos a los tres estadios mexicanos donde se jugarán 13 partidos del torneo de fútbol masculino.
La advertencia incluye el debut del seleccionado local ante Sudáfrica en el mítico Azteca de Ciudad de México, el 11 de junio, que marcará el inicio del campeonato.
La Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE), una corriente disidente dentro del magisterio mexicano, adelantó que decretará en breve una huelga indefinida que promete tener una fuerte repercusión durante el Mundial.
“La huelga está decidida. Solo falta poner fecha”, dijo a TN el dirigente Pedro Hernández Morales, secretario general de la seccion 9 del gremio en el Distrito Federal.
La decisión final se tomará en un congreso sindical previsto para este sábado.
¿Peligran los partidos del Mundial que se disputarán en México?
México albergará a 13 partidos del Mundial que se jugará también en Canadá y Estados Unidos.
Cinco encuentros se disputarán en el Estadio Azteca, donde Diego Maradona levantó el trofeo en 1986; otros cuatro en Guadalajara (centro-oeste) y los cuatro restantes en Monterrey (norte).
La estrategia de los docentes, que reclaman cambios en la ley de jubilaciones y la cancelación de una reforma educativa que juzgan de neoliberal, es simple.
El mítico estadio Azteca, de Ciudad de México, albergará el debut del Mundial el 11 de junio (Foto: EFE)
“Nos presentaremos en la vera de los estadios donde se van a jugar los partidos para hacer visibles nuestras demandas. Manejamos un menú de medidas. Va a haber manifestaciones en la calle, bloqueos, exhibición de lonas (telas de plástico)… Hay muchas formas para expresar nuestra disconformidad”, dijo Hernández Morales.
Pero los maestros no estarán solos. Los agricultores anunciaron que aprovecharán el torneo para visibilizar sus demandas. En concreto, presionan por un aumento en los precios del maíz en alianza con transportistas, víctimas de la inseguridad en las rutas nacionales.
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Estos sectores preparan también un paro nacional y un eventual bloqueo de carreteras durante la inauguración del Mundial.
También anunciaron que saldrán a las calles las madres que buscan a sus hijos desaparecidos y los padres de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa, secuestrados y desaparecidos el 26 de septiembre de 2014 en Iguala, en el estado de Guerrero, sur del país, en un caso sin resolución y que sacudió a México.
“Seremos miles de docentes, las madres que buscan a sus hijos, los padres de Ayotzinapa, los agricultores que presionan por precios justos a sus productos, los transportistas que se quejan de la inseguridad y el alza del precio de la gasolina. Se va a juntar muchísima inconformidad”, dijo Hernández Morales.
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La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, no quiere problemas. Ya en abril se quejó de los reclamos de distintos sectores que presagiaban un Mundial con alta conflictividad sindical.
“Ahora ya todos quieren impedir el Mundial”, dijo en abril.
En las últimas semanas, el gobierno buscó aplacar la presión docente con una propuesta polémica: adelantar y extender seis semanas las vacaciones escolares durante el torneo. El plan preveía decretar el fin del ciclo escolar el 5 de junio, en lugar del 15 de julio previsto. La medida finalmente fue dejada de lado ante las fuertes críticas de asociaciones de padres, ONG y la oposición. La presidenta mexicana Claudia Sheinbaum presentó el plan de organización de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026 en Ciudad de México el 10 de noviembre de 2025. (Foto: Carl de Souza/AFP)
“Es muy probable que esta intentona fallida de adelantar el final del horario escolar haya respondido a ese deseo de evitar que los profesores pudieran causar problemas durante el Mundial. Seguramente los docentes usarán eso para chantajear al gobierno y habrá que ver que tanto Sheinbaum está dispuesta a ceder a sus intereses”, dijo a TN el exdiputado Fernando Rodríguez Doval, ex secretario nacional del Partido Acción Nacional (PAN, derecha).
Ahora, el gobierno busca mantener bajo control la calle cuando todos los ojos del mundo estarán puestos en el estadio Azteca el 11 de junio, durante la inauguración del torneo.
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Fuentes del gobierno afirmaron que “la seguridad está garantizada”. Pero la preocupación crece a menos de un mes del comienzo del certamen.
Las señales son inquietantes. El 17 de abril, estudiantes del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), de Ciudad de México, tomaron las instalaciones del Canal Once de televisión. Allí, ante las cámaras, alertaron que “no habrá Mundial” si las autoridades no atienden sus reclamos ante una serie de supuestas irregularidades en ese centro de estudios.
“Va a ser un mes de junio bastante movido”, resumió Hernández Morales.
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