Washington – Federal immigration officials have detained a graduate student of a Georgetown University in India, who was teaching a student visa at the Washington Institute, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Attorney Hasan Ahmed said that masked agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, a graduate student outside his house in Arlington, Virginia on Monday night.
Ahmed said that the agents identified themselves with the Homeland Security Department and told them that the government had canceled its visa.
Politico first reported the news. Umad called Suri’s custody “beyond contempt” and said that he had done nothing wrong.
The University of Georgetown said that it was not known about any misconduct by Suri.
The Department of Homeland Security and State Department did not respond to the requests of comment, in which Suri was detained.
Assistant DHS Secretary Trisia McLaglin said on X in response to the story of Politico that Suri was “actively spreading Hamas’s promotion and promoting antisementism on social media.”
He also alleged that “Suri has a close relationship with a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas.”
According to the US immigration and customs enforcement captive locator, Suri was being organized in Alexandria’s staging facility in Alexandria, Louisiana. Ahmed confirmed his place.
Suri was detained as the Trump administration attempts to deport Mahmood Khalil, a graduate student of Columbia University, who participated in protests against war in Israel and Gaza using a part of the immigration law related to “foreign policy results”.
Suri’s lawyer Ahmed said, “It is beyond contempt by kidnapping our government and seeing another innocent person in jail.” “And if a skilled scholar who focuses on the solution of struggle is that the government decides is bad for foreign policy, then the problem is probably with the government and not with the scholar.”
According to his profile on the website of Suri Georgetown University, Edmund A. Alvalid bin Talal is a postdorel fellow at the Walsh School of Foreign Service for Muslim-Isai understanding.
His biography says that he has his Ph.D. In 2020, in the study of peace and struggle at Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution in Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. He divided his thesis “transitional democracy, divided societies and possibilities for peace: a study of state building in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The University of Georgetown said that it has not been explained why Suri was taken into custody.
The university said, “We do not know about being engaged in any illegal activity, and we have not found its custody. “We hope that the legal system will properly postpone the matter.”
Suri has traveled extensively in struggle areas in India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Palestinian areas, saying their university profile. This Georgetown Profile says that he is a “interdisciplinary scholar”, whose fields of interest are religion, violence and peace, ethnic conflicts and peace processes.
The university says that it is working on a project that is seen in possible reasons that hinders the cooperation between religious societies and the possibilities of removing the obstacles.
State Secretary Marco Rubio has defended efforts to deport Khalil, saying “No one has the right to student visa”. A judge has temporarily blocked his exile.
Last week, Ice arrested a Palestinian woman Leca Cordia, who participated in the protest in Columbia and who abolished her student visa, said.
Suri’s lawyer filed a petition for the writ of captive corpus in the federal court in Virginia tried to determine if his custody is valid.
