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#Trump is seeking to #deport another #academic who is legally in the country
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at #Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a US #citizen w/ #Palestinian heritage.
Hooded #ICE agents snatched the India-born Georgetown postdoc #BadarSuri from Rosslyn street Mon, per the court filing. Like #MahmoudKhalil, Suri was subject to #MarcoRubio’s 'foreign policy' power, atty says.
#immigration #law #USpol #NaziState
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-deportation-georgetown-graduate-student-00239754
The agents identified themselves as being w/ #DHS & told #BadarSuri the govt had revoked his #visa…
Suri…was put in #deportation proceedings under the same rarely used provision of #immigration #law that the govt invoked to deport #MahmoudKhalil, the #ColumbiaUniversity grad student & #GreenCard holder who led pro-#Palestinian protests on campus. That provision gives the secy of #State power to deport noncitizens if he determines their continued presence in the #US would threaten #ForeignPolicy.
#BadarSuri has NO criminal record & has not been charged w/a crime, his petition says. His #detention & petition have not been previously reported.
Suri’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, argued in his petition that Suri is being punished because of the #Palestinian heritage of his wife — who is a #UScitizen — & because the govt *suspects* that he & his wife oppose US #ForeignPolicy toward #Israel.
In response to #BadarSuri's Petition for Writ of #HabeasCorpus, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles says the detained #Georgetown researcher cannot be deported *for now* The arrest of #BadarSuri, #Trump’s #DHS claimed Suri was spreading“Hamas propaganda,”arrested & sent him to a Louisiana detention center. Suri is a LEGAL resident of Virginia married to a full US citizen of Palestinian heritage.
