Trump admin asks court to block pro-Palestine students' release
The Trump administration urged a US appeals court on Tuesday to allow immigration authorities to continue to detain students at Tufts University and Columbia University who were arrested after engaging in pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus. A lawyer with the US Department of Justice asked the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals to pause lower-court orders requiring Tuft's Rumeysa Ozturk to be transferred to Vermont for a bail hearing on Friday and allowing Columbia's Mohsen Mahdawi to