A federal appeals court made no immediate rulings Tuesday afternoon in the high-profile cases of two graduate students whom the Trump administration is seeking to deport as part of its crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student, and Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, have been fighting deportation proceedings since earlier this year.

Öztürk was arrested by masked federal agents on the streets of Somerville in March, and Mahdawi was detained in April in Vermont at a naturalization interview . Both were released on bail earlier this spring by a pair of federal district court judges in Vermont, who said it was likely their constitutional rights had been violated. Their deportation c

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