The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.

A federal judge ordered that the case of Rümeysa Öztürk, a graduate student at Tufts University, be moved to Vermont, where she was in ICE custody before being moved to Louisiana.

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,

Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities have argued that her case should be handled by the federal court in Massachusetts.

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

Rümeysa Öztürk, a doctoral student on a Fulbright scholarship, has had three asthma attacks while being held in a Louisiana detention center.

Tufts University is calling on ICE to release international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk as the case goes before a federal judge in Boston Thursday afternoon. CBS News Boston's Tiffany Chan and CBS News Department of Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane have the latest.

As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., professor Daniel Kanstroom discusses the law — and the human cost. He says the round-ups are designed to "send a message."