Jericho Tran

The Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar maintained a valid F-1 visa status. Now that visa has been terminated. The Department of Homeland Security claims Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the graduate student's presence in the U.S.

could have, quote, potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences and would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest. Ozturk wrote an op-ed for the university's paper calling for Tufts to divest from companies directly tied to Israel.

On Tuesday night, a U.S. District Court judge issued a order blocking the Trump administration from removing Ozturk from the state of Massachusetts without 48 hours notice. The U.S. Attorney's Office suggests that Ozturk may have been moved before the court's involvement, offering to provide a timeline of Ozturk's arrest and transfer from Massachusetts.

And you can hear those chants live right now. They're asking police to let them in once again. You can see them kind of barricading the doors. They have let some of these rallyers in, but it doesn't look like they're letting everybody in right now. This is one of several protests. We were at a protest yesterday. We were at two of them today. This is one of them.

That city council meeting here in Somerville is happening as we speak. We'll have more on that for you later. That's the very latest here in Somerville. Jericho Tran, NBC10 Boston.

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Well, there's hundreds here today, and I can tell you we are witnessing some very tense moments here outside of Somerville City Hall. There's a city council meeting that's going on right now, and you can see that these hundreds of protesters are trying to make their way inside. Police have stopped them. It looks like there's some sort of fire code violation.

Once again, there are hundreds of people here. It doesn't look like all of them will be able to fit inside of the building. Of course, all of this happening after Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest here in Somerville. On Tuesday, federal agents arrested Tufts University student Romesa Ozturk just steps away from the university.

Ozturk now waits inside the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center, which houses immigrants waiting for legal proceedings or deportations. You see it on TV.