A federal appeals court judge issued a stay on a district court's order to transfer a detained Tufts University student to Vermont, according to an order filed Monday.

The federal government is fighting a judge’s ruling that Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is fighting deportation, must be transferred back to an immigration facility in Vermont from Louisiana.

A federal judge on Friday ordered Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University international doctoral student held in immigration custody in Louisiana to be returned to Vermont by next month where she will remain detained,