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.

Federal immigration officials must transport Rümeysa Öztürk back to Vermont, a federal judge ruled Thursday after the government continued to fight to keep the Tufts PhD candidate in Louisiana as she faces deportation proceedings.