Within an hour of sweeping Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk off a sidewalk near the Somerville campus last week, immigration agents were quickly on the move.

ICE agents took Turkish Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk into custody near Tufts, revoked her visa and moved her to a detention center in Louisiana last week.

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in Massachusetts and sent to the South Louisiana ICE processing center in the swamplands of Evangeline parish in Basile. Sending detainees to the cluster of remote immigration detention centers known as “Detention Alley” in the south is a common practice.

A federal court hearing is set to address the case of a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities

A federal judge in Boston overseeing the immigration case of Rümeysa Öztürk will hear from lawyers seeking to keep her in the US and from federal prosecutors working to deport the Tufts student to her native Turkey.

The case involving a Tufts University student detained by ICE is slated to be heard in federal court in Boston Thursday.Rumeysa Ozturk,<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville, Massachusetts, according to the agency and a statement the school.

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish student detained by immigration officers in Boston last month, was moved across multiple state lines as part of a “highly unusual” and “secretive” attempt to keep her from accessing her attorney or being near her home,

Tufts University is calling for grad student Rumeysa Ozturk to be “released without delay” after ICE agents grabbed her off a Somerville street.