WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s administration has detained an Indian man studying at Washington’s Georgetown University and is seeking to deport him after deeming him a harm to US foreign policy, the student’s lawyer say.
The US Department of Homeland Security accuses Badar Khan Suri of ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and says he has spread Hamas propaganda and antisemitism on social media, according to a statement it shared with Fox News.
The DHS statement to Fox News, which was reposted by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, does not cite evidence. It says Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that Suri’s activities “rendered him deportable.”
Suri — who is living in the US on a student visa and is married to an American citizen — has been detained in Alexandria, Louisiana, and is awaiting a court date in immigration court, his lawyer says. Federal agents arrested him outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, on Monday night.
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