Three Massachusetts lawmakers have returned from Louisiana, where they met with a Tufts student being detained by ICE at a detention center, and said they will continue to fight for her release from prison.

Sen. Ed Markey and Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jim McGovern spoke with Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil. The post Mass. lawmakers travel to Louisiana to speak to Tufts grad student being held by ICE appeared first on Boston.

Lawmakers visited facilities in Louisiana where the Trump administration is holding immigrants, including Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Özturk and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil.