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The Trump administration has detained an Indian student from Georgetown University on Wednesday and plans to deport him, accusing him of spreading propaganda and posing a threat to US foreign policy, news agency Reuters reported citing his lawyer.
The US Department of Homeland Security accused Badar Khan Suri of having ties to the Palestinian militant group Hamas and spreading its propaganda and antisemitism on social media, according to a statement shared with Fox News.
The DHS statement to Fox News, reposted by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, did not provide any evidence. It said Secretary of State Marco Rubio ruled that Suri’s actions made him eligible for deportation.
Suri, who was in the US on a student visa and is married to an American citizen, was arrested outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, on Monday night.
He is currently detained in Alexandria, Louisiana, awaiting a court hearing in immigration court, his lawyer said.
Postdoctoral student at Georgetown University
Badar Khan Suri is a postdoctoral fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington.
According to a report by Politico, Suri, who was studying and teaching on a student visa, was detained by federal immigration authorities as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on student activists accused of opposing US foreign policy. The report added that “masked agents” arrested him outside his home in Virginia on Monday night.
“If an accomplished scholar who focusses on conflict resolution is whom the government decides is bad for foreign policy, then perhaps the problem is with the government, not the scholar,” Suri’s lawyer said to international news agency Reuters.
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