Sarah McLaughlin

Action Memo for Senior Bureau Official John Armstrong FROM: SUBJECT: CA/VO - Stuart Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary (SBU) Revocation of Fl Visa for Rumeysa OZTURK (SBU) Recommendation 1: That you approve the revocation of the Fl visa, effective immediately, for under section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Due to ongoing ICE operational security, this revocation will be silent; the Department will not notify the subject. (Approve/Disapprove by 03/21/25) Decision: [Approved] (SBU) Recommendation 2: That you authorize the transmission of the attached notification to the Department of Homeland Security noting the, immediate revocation of OZTURK's visa. (Approve/Disapprove by 03/21/25) Decision: [Approved] Background (SBU} On March 21, 2025, the Assistant Director of the National Security Division of DHS/ICE's Homeland Security Investigations referred to CA information regarding Rumeysa OZTURK, a Turkish national, for a possible determination by the Secretary that the alien is deportable under INA section 237(a)(4)(C). As a nonimmigrant visa holder, such a determination is not necessary for OHS/ICE to pursue removal of OZTURK from the United States, as INA section 237(a}(1)(B) provides that an alien is deportable if their nonimmigrant visa has been revoked under INA section 221(i).

(SBU) Under INA section 221(i), the Secretary of State may at any time, in his discretion, revoke a visa.. This authority is delegated to you pursuant to Delegation of Authority 367-4. Department policy reflected in 9 FAM 403.ll~S(B) provides that a visa may be revoked in cases of a suspected ineligibility, when an individual would not meet requirements .for admission, or "in other situations where warranted." (SBU) OZTURK was issued an F-1 visa on December 14, 2020, valid until December 9, 2025. According to information provided by OHS/ICE/HSI OZTURK is a post doctorate degree candidate in Child Studies and Human Development at Tufts University. On March 21, 2025, OHS/ICE/HSI referred information to CA indicating that OZTURK co-authored an op-ed in Tufts' student newspaper. In this article, the authors wrote, "Graduate Students for Pal'estine joins Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (TSJP), the Tufts Faculty and Staff Coalition for Ceasefire, .and Fletcher Students for Palestine to reject the ,University's response" {to a student government resolution). According to OHS/ICE/HSI, Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine was placed\\ on interim suspension 11 after it used images of weapons to promote a protest rally and urged members of the Tufts community to 'join the student intifada." OHS/ICE/HSI referral concluded that "OZTURK's involvement in these activities and associations with these groups may undermine U.S. foreign. policy by creating a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for a designated terrorist organization." (SBU) While OZTURK has been involved with the actions protesting Turfts' relationship with Israel, QHS/ICE/HSI has not, however, provided any evidence showing that OZTURK has engaged in any antisemitic activity or made any public statements indicating support for a terrorist organization or antisemitism generally. While the report implies a connection between OZTURK and the now-banned Tufts Student for Justice in Pa…

OZTURK was involved in any of the activities which resulted in TJSP being suspended from Tufts. (SBU) Through a search on March 21, 2025, on available USG interagency databases, CA/VO identified no reporting specific to OZTURK, and interagency vetting partners did not provide any response to OZTURK's 2024 visa application indicating the existence of derogatory terrorism-related information. (SBU) OHS did not identify any alternative grounds of removability that would be applicable to OZTURK, including the ground of removability for aliens who have provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization or terrorist activity, and have not indicated whether it plans to consider termination of OZTURK's SEVIS registration. Although information provided by OHS/HSI/ICE does not establish any potential ineligibility for OZTURK, you may, in your discretion and in accordance with Department policy in 9 FAM 403.11-5(8), approve revocation of her F-1 visa effective immediately based on the totality of the circumstances presented indicating that revocation may be warranted.

Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed.

No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism.

An op-ed in a student newspaper.

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DHS version

White House version

The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.

Florida woman criticized Miami Beach's mayor on Facebook. Cops then showed up at her home “Free speech died at my door,” Raquel Pacheco, a small business owner, told The Advocate.

This *really* should not need to be said, but apparently it does: You should be able to criticize the mayor online without police showing up at your door to question you.

The presidents of Hong Kong’s top universities also signed a letter supporting Beijing’s repressive new national security law, which requires “higher education institutions to incorporate national security education into their curriculum.”8 Such courses “outline the national security law’s 66 articles, detailing how they might be breached, while stressing the need for greater patriotism and national Chinese identity.”9 And many faculty members, “recounting how they had dedicated their professional lives to [their] university[,] . . . now feel abandoned.”10 Remarking that “[i]t is upsetting to be part of an institution proactively participating in stifling dissent,” one unnamed professor explained that “she and many colleagues are looking for jobs in other countries.”11 Some might say, “that’s China, it could never happen here.” But Plaintiffs contend it already has.12 In an apparent act of vorauseilender Gehorsam, 13 they say, UF has bowed to perceived pressure from Florida’s political leaders and has

it is true that some Americans waved the flag as they committed unspeakable acts of evil

but other Americans waved that same flag marching into battle against their own former slaveowners

you get to decide who has the legitimate claim

Hong Kong begins national security trial of Tiananmen vigil group Hong Kong's High Court began hearing on Thursday a landmark national security trial of the three former leaders of a disbanded group that organised annual vigils marking Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Squar...

Acknowledging history is "inciting subversion of state power" in Hong Kong.

I knew we were cooked when Hathaway failed the empty netter

“Tom, did I ever tell you about the time I got stabbed with a hockey skate?”

I would pay a….considerable amount of money to listen to him during a flyers game

“he’s got no teeth to knock out”

if you don’t watch hockey, you will
miss announcers, upon seeing players hit each other for no reason, say “just seemed like the thing to do I guess”

Tippett. Left the ice, presumably for a concussion test

nothing more infuriating than a team avoiding a well-earned penalty and then capitalizing on that

Huh.

I don't watch enough of non-Flyers games to have a sense but have they just...stopped taking head injuries seriously?

I'm know I'm biased, but doesn't the lack of a response from the league on multiple potentially dirty hits to Flyers players in recent weeks seem a little odd?

i want nothing more than the flyers to continue to make me look bad online

now that i think about it, it may have been unwise for all of us to pin our need for good news on.....philly sports

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Hours after ABC News ran a story about a Minnesota toy store, ICE agents arrived at their door The agents were asking for I-9 documents — which prove people are legal to work in this country — from the store’s employees.

“She delivered a very strident anti-ICE message...Three hours later, two plainclothes ICE agents came into our store and served us with a Notice of Inspection.”

'They are watching': Chinese students' already-stifled speech faces increased scrutiny in the U.S. Students from China make up the bulk of UNC's international student population. While these students have had to worry about surveillance from China for some time, threats from the United States are i...

"A UNC junior from China said that there are some issues they would be hesitant to discuss in China, and others they would be hesitant to discuss in the United States given their visa status...In both countries, they said, their speech 'is never 100 percent free.'"

ICE broke into Minnesota home, dragged barely clothed man into snow A Minnesota man told Reuters he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs.

He was a U.S. citizen, as well: "A Minnesota man told Reuters on Monday he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs." www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

In a letter to multiple European ambassadors today, President Trump says that because Norway failed to give him a Nobel Peace Prize, “I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace”

The letter goes on to demand “complete and total control of Greenland.”

What exactly is the definition ICE uses of "verbal assault"?

Mike Lee tweet asking what should be the consequence for Ilhan Omar saying “US goddamn states” and musk replies “whatever the penalty is for treason”

Also apparently treason, according to Elon Musk: literally just saying the words “U.S. goddamn states.”

The extent to which the term “doxing” has lost any meaning is astounding. You are perfectly free to discuss the PUBLIC NAME of an ICE agent who shot and killed a woman. And keep in mind this comes after the admin has made repeatedly clear they think “doxing” (as they call it) is not legal.

‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo

NYT publishes audio of Karoline Leavitt threatening CBS over its Trump interview: “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...