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.

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.

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.