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.

A federal judge ruled Thursday that a detained Tufts student must be returned to Vermont, according to a court order.

An immigration judge denied bond to Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, whom Department of Homeland Security agents snatched off the streets of a Boston suburb and arrested. The 30-year-old was arrested on March 25 by plainclothes immigration officers,