Within an hour of sweeping Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk off a sidewalk near the Somerville campus last week, immigration agents were quickly on the move.

After ICE agents arrested her in Somerville, Rümeysa Öztürk was moved rapidly to New Hampshire, Vermont, and then flown to Louisiana.

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in Massachusetts and sent to the South Louisiana ICE processing center in the swamplands of Evangeline parish in Basile. Sending detainees to the cluster of remote immigration detention centers known as “Detention Alley” in the south is a common practice.