Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk reads from a prepared statement following a court hearing outside the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on December 4, 2025, in Boston.Leah Willingham/AP

An immigration judge dropped a deportation case against Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University doctoral student who was arrested by masked and plainclothes federal agents nearly a year ago, according to a letter from her lawyers on Monday. 

In March 2024, Öztürk was one of four authors of an op-ed in Tufts’ student newspaper, Tufts Daily, that criticized the university’s administration for failing to act on three student-led resolutions that passed—including calling for the acknowledgement of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and divesting from Israel. 

The Trump administration cited the op-ed as grounds for removing Öztürk from the US and revoked her student visa. 

But the letter,........

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