A federal judge decided on Thursday not to wait for President Donald Trump's administration to bring a Tufts University doctoral student being held in a Louisiana immigration detention facility back to Vermont as previously ordered before assessing whether she should be released from custody.

Rumeysa Ozturk, an international student from Turkey, was detained in Massachusetts in March and later taken to Louisiana. The ruling said she must be transferred within a week.

We respectfully request that the court move forward with the bail hearing as originally scheduled,” Monica H. Allard, an attorney for Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, said Thursday.