The researcher was arrested outside his home Monday night by Department of Homeland Security agents who told him his student visa was revoked by the federal government.
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A Virginia-based federal district judge ruled Thursday the Trump administration cannot deport a Georgetown University researcher accused of having connections to Hamas, hindering the administration’s latest attempt to deport students it claims have connections to the militant group.Key Facts
Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles said in a filing Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, “shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court issues a contrary order.”
Suri, who is being held at a detention center in Louisiana, was accused by the Department of Homeland Security this week of spreading antisemitism on social media and having “close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior adviser to Hamas.”
Suri’s lawyer denied the allegations against the researcher, claiming in court Suri was targeted over his wife’s “identity as a Palestinian and her constitutionally protected speech.
