BOSTON (Reuters) — A US federal judge on Monday cleared the way for Tufts University PhD student and pro-Palestinian activist Rumeysa Ozturk to work on campus after ordering President Donald Trump’s administration to restore her status in a key database used to track foreign students.

Chief US District Judge Denise Casper in Boston issued an injunction after concluding Ozturk was likely to succeed in proving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement unlawfully terminated her record in the database the same day that masked, plainclothes agents took her into custody in March.

That ICE-maintained database is called the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) and is used to track foreign students who enter on visas. The termination of a student’s record from that database prevents that person from being employed.

Ozturk, in a statement, said she was grateful for the ruling and that she hopes “that no one else experiences the injustices I have suffered.”

The US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ozturk’s arrest on a street in the Boston........

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