A federal appeals court has paused a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England this week so it can consider an emergency motion filed by the government.

Öztürk's lawyers filed a petition against her arrest while she was being held in Vermont. A federal judge ordered the government to transfer her back by May 1, so her case could continue in the district court in Burlington.

A federal judge in Vermont had ordered immigration officials to return the Tufts doctoral student to his court by May 1.