U.S. District Judge Denise Casper on Friday moved the case to Vermont, where Ozturk was being held at the time the petition was filed.

The Trump administration on Friday lost a bid to throw out or move to Louisiana a Tufts University student's legal challenge to her immigration arrest, which sparked protests against the president's efforts to deport pro-Palestinian activists on American campuses.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, was taken into custody by immigration officials on March 25.