Court orders Trump admin to move ICE detained, pro-Palestinian Tufts student to Vermont

A federal court on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to move a Tufts student and pro-Palestinian activist to Vermont. 

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was detained March 25 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside of her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, near the school, and was taken to a federal detention facility in Louisiana.

She was detained for allegedly participating in activities supporting the terrorist group Hamas.

On Wednesday, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled the administration had to comply with a lower court order and move Ozturk to Vermont. 

A bail hearing in Osturk's challenge to her confinement is set to take place Friday in a federal court in Vermont, according to CBS News.

The appeals court judges – Judges Barrington Parker, Susan Carney and Alison Nathan – wrote in their opinion that the transfer will provide Ozturk with "ready access" to legal and medical services, address concerns about the conditions of her confinement and expedite the resolution of the matter – all of which, they said, was required in the lower court ruling.