A federal judge has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to respond by 9 a.m. Thursday to an emergency request by the attorney representing a Tufts graduate student arrested by masked agents Tuesday and sent to Louisiana to return her to Massachusetts, records show.

Judge Denise J. Casper issued the one sentence order on Wednesday in response to the “emergency motion to produce” the student, 30-year-old Rumeysa Ozturk, filed by her attorney in US District Court in Boston, records show.

Ozturk, a Tufts PhD student from Turkey who is in the US on a student visa, was taken into custody in Somerville Tuesday by masked ICE agents and relocated to an ICE facility in Louisiana by Wednesday.

Casper is the second judge to weigh in the Ozturk case since the arrest. On Tuesday, District Court Judge Indira Talwani ordered ICE to keep Ozturk in Massachusetts and not relocate her without 48 hour notice to the court, records show.

It was unclear why the government targeted Ozturk, who is studying at the Tufts department of child study and human development. She had voiced support for the pro-Palestinian movement at Tufts, but was not known as a prominent leader.

Ozturk’s lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai, said Wednesday she is not aware of any charges against her.

”Why she was transferred to Louisiana despite the court’s order is beyond me,“ she said Wednesday. ”Rumeysa should immediately be brought back to Massachusetts, released, and allowed to return to complete her PhD program.”

The Department of Homeland Security asserted that Ozturk “engaged in support of Hamas,‘’ a US-designated terror group behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ignited the Gaza war. The Trump administration did not provide evidence of that claim.

The precise timing of when Ozturk was taken out of Massachusetts and when Talwani issued the first order in the case was unclear.

Information from earlier Globe reporting was used in the account.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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