The federal government is fighting a judge’s ruling that Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is fighting deportation, must be transferred back to an immigration facility in Vermont from Louisiana.

A federal judge has denied the government's appeal to stop the transfer of a Tufts university student back to Vermont.

McGovern’s remarks followed a trip with Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley to a U.S. Customs and Immigration Detention Center in Louisiana to visit Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk. Ozturk’s detention, the group said, violates her rights as legal resident of the United States and a human being.