A judge on Thursday denied the government’s request to pause the transfer of Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who is fighting deportation after writing an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza,

ICE has a week to bring a Tufts doctoral student to Vermont from Louisiana, a federal court judge ruled Thursday.

A federal judge ruled Thursday that detained Turkish student Rümeysa Öztürk must be moved back to Vermont. Öztürk, a doctoral student in the U.S. on a student visa, is currently being held at a detention facility in Louisiana, after she was arrested in a Boston, MA suburb last month. Security footage shows DHS agents grabbing Öztürk on a sidewalk.