The mystery surrounding Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk's whereabouts after she was picked up by federal immigration agents has shocked many — and is now complicating her legal proceedings. Why it matters: The case's question about jurisdiction — typically a granular area of court proceedings — could affect how ICE detains foreign-born residents and how it communicates about detentions in the future.

An attorney for the Justice Department denied "manipulating" jurisdictions when ICE agents swiftly moved a Tufts doctoral student out of state and flew her to Louisiana last week.

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was seized by immigration officials off a street near Boston argued in federal court Thursday that she should be returned to Massachusetts, while the U.S. government insisted it did nothing wrong in moving her to a detention center in Louisiana.

A transfer across state lines had the effect of making it much more difficult to challenge the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk though legal petition.

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.

Top Democrats are calling for the release of Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, writing a letter to Trump administration officials demanding answers.

Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her on the street near her apartment in Somerville,