U.S. District Judge William Sessions ordered Ozturk’s transfer to Vermont, where she was last confined before she was taken to Louisiana. The government requested a delay, but a federal appeals court upheld his decision Wednesday, ordering Ozturk to be transferred to ICE custody in Vermont no later than May 14.

Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts, has been held for about six weeks in Louisiana. She says conditions there significantly worsened her asthma, and that the government violated her constitutional rights.