By: Kat Gingolaski, Staff Writer Rumeysa Öztürk, a third-year doctoral student at Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was detained by federal officials on March 25, 2025. Rumeysa is a Fullbright Scholar and a Turkish national with an F-1 student visa studying child and adolescent development. On the 25th, […]
By Emma Hurst, Staff Writer In September 2019, there were 52,546 arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border, the lowest it has been this year.[1] The number of arrests decreased 64% since May, just five months prior.[2] However, within the fiscal year that concluded in September, border arrests reached an 11-year high […]
By Natalie Tupta, Staff Writer In the last several years, record numbers of children have crossed the southern border of the United States without their parents in search of a better life. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports apprehending 108,511 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UACs) between the ages of 0 […]