"It's a victory for Rumeysa. It's a victory for justice. It's a victory for our democracy."
"Let us not be fooled into thinking that we are different from Rumeysa."
"Rümeysa Öztürk has finally been ordered released."
"Donald Trump just fired my dear friend Dr. Carla Hayden — the Librarian of Congress — via email. This is disgraceful."
"The Trump administration just feels it has the right to take people from across our country and put them into facilities like this."
"the single most conservative circuit court of appeals in the United States of America."
"The administration is seeking to circumscribe the constitutional rights of Rümeysa Öztürk, of Mahmoud Khalil..."
"The purpose of Öztürk and Khalil’s detention... is for the administration to make examples of those who express viewpoints it opposes."
"Through the Trump administration, ICE feels they have a right to take people from across our country, and to put them into facilities like this here in Louisiana."
"Trump sent masked law enforcement officers to arrest Rumeysa Ozturk — a Tufts University grad student with legal status — without a criminal charge."
"Disappearances like these are part of Trump’s all-out assault on our basic freedoms. This is authoritarianism, and we will not let this stand."