The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, arrested an Indian man who studied at Washington Georgetown and seeks to deport him after considering him harmful to the foreign policy of the United States, the student’s lawyer said Wednesday.
The defendant of the United States National Security Department, Badar Khan Suri, of ties with Hamas and said that he had disseminated the propaganda and anti -Semitism of the group on social networks, according to a statement with which he shared Fox News.
The DHS Declaration to Fox Newswhich was replaced by the White House Cabinet Deputy director, Stephen Miller, did not quote evidence. He said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that Suri’s activities “made it deportable.”
Suri, who lives in the United States with a student visa and is married to an American citizen, has been arrested in Alexandria, Louisiana, and is waiting for an appointment in the court in the immigration court, said his lawyer.
Federal agents arrested him outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, Monday night.
The case occurs when Trump seeks to deport foreigners who participated in pro-palestinian protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza after an October Hamas attack 2023.
Trump’s measures have caused a protest of civil rights and immigrant defense groups that accuse their administration of unfairly aimed at political critics.
Suri is a postdoctoral fellow at the Bin Talal Center for Bin Talal de Georgetown for Muslim-Christian understanding, which is part of the University’s Foreign Service School. His arrest was first reported by Political.
“If a consummated scholar that focuses on conflict resolution is whom the government decides that it is bad for foreign policy, then perhaps the problem is with the government, not with the scholar,” Suri’s lawyer said in an email.
A spokesman from the University of Georgetown said that the University had not received a reason for the arrest of Suri and that he was not aware that Suri participated in any illegal activity.
Meanwhile, a department spokesman claimed that he had “close connections with a known or presumed terrorist, who is the main advisor of Hamas”, according to Anadolu agency.
Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, is an American citizen, said his lawyer.
Saleh is from Gaza, according to the Georgetown University website, which said he has written to Al Jazeera and the Palestinian media and worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza. Saleh has not been arrested, added the lawyer.
Suri himself has been teaching a class this semester on “majority and rights of minorities in southern Asia” and has a doctorate in peace studies and conflict from a university in India, according to the Georgetown University website.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration arrested and sought to deport the student of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil for their participation in pro-palestinian protests. Khalil is challenging his arrest in court.
Trump, without evidence, accused Khalil of supporting Hamas. Khalil’s legal team says that it has no links with Hamas that the United States designates as a “foreign terrorist organization.”
Trump claimed that pro-palestinian protesters are anti-Semitic.
Pro-Palestinian defenders, including some Jewish groups, say that their criticisms from Israel’s assault to Gaza and their support for Palestinian rights are wrongly combined with anti-Semitism by their critics.
The judge says that Mahmoud Khalil must remain in us for now
An American judge said Wednesday that Khalil must remain in the United States for now, but transferred his challenge to the legality of his arrest for his participation in pro-palestinian protests to a court in New Jersey.
The US district judge based in Manhattan, Jesse Furman, denied an offer from the Trump administration to dismiss the case, but agreed with the Department of Justice that had no jurisdiction because Khalil was held in New Jersey at the time his lawyers challenged his arrest in New York for the first time.
Now it will depend on the New Jersey court to declare about Khalil’s offers to declare his unconstitutional arrest, and be released on bail or transferred. Khalil’s lawyers say that his wife, an American citizen named Noor Abdallah, cannot visit him in Louisiana, where he is currently being detained because he has eight months pregnant with his first child.
Khalil’s lawyer, Samah Sisay, said in a statement on Wednesday that the government transferred him to Louisiana to prevent the case from being heard in New York or New Jersey.
“Khalil must be free and at home with his wife waiting for the birth of his first child, and we will continue doing our best to make that,” said Sisay.
