Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish PhD student at Tufts University, was arrested by plainclothes federal agents on a Somerville sidewalk last week.

After being picked up in Massachusetts, Rumeysa Ozturk was moved to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government wants to argue its case to deport her.

The case to free a Tufts PhD student and vocally pro-Palestine Turkish national after she was detained last week took a step forward in court Thursday, with the defense and government contesting

José Gregorio González came to the U.S. to save his brother, who is in kidney failure, but was arrested in March before he could undergo donor surgery.

A Venezuelan man who came to the US to donate a kidney to his brother learned this week he’d be deported, but days later, he was granted a reprieve, an advocate said.

Jose Gregorio Gonzalez had been detained by ICE after he accompanied his brother, Jose Alfredo Gonzalez, to a kidney dialysis appointment.