Sen. Ed Markey and U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jim McGovern met on Tuesday with Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University graduate student detained in an ICE facility in Basile, Louisiana.

Lawmakers said Öztürk, of Tufts University, and Khalil, of Columbia University, appeared to be in decent health, but they are wracked with fear. The delegation expressed outrage that students are being held for expressing their views,

Democratic members of Congress on Tuesday traveled to Louisiana to meet with Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, who remain in custody at Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers as they face deportation.