Five Democrats traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday to visit the ICE facilities where Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk have been held custody.

Three Massachusetts lawmakers have returned from Louisiana, where they met with a Tufts student being detained by ICE at a detention center, and said they will continue to fight for her release from prison.

Five congressional Democrats on Tuesday traveled to Louisiana, where they met with two graduate students who have been detained by federal immigration officials and have become high-profile examples of the Trump administration’s efforts to suppress pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses.

A congressional delegation traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday to demand the release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Ph.D. student at Tufts University, and Mahmoud Khalil, a 2024 Columbia University graduate,

At a press conference Tuesday, Senator Ed Markey and Representative Ayanna Pressley harshly condemned the treatment of Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts University, and other detainees.