Agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have arrested a foreign exchange student studying at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
According to a lawsuit filed by Khan's lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, “He was reportedly arrested by a DHS agent outside his Virginia home where he studied and taught on a student visa. Politics It has been reported.
Ahmad argued that “Suri is being punished for his wife's Palestinian heritage,” but a spokesperson for American citizen Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS, claimed that Suri “has a close connection with known or suspected terrorists, a senior adviser to Hamas.”
“Suri was a foreign exchange student at Georgetown University, actively spread Hamas propaganda and promoted anti-Semitism on social media,” writes McLaughlin. post X. “Suri has close ties with known or suspected terrorists, a senior adviser to Hamas. On March 15, 2025, the Secretary of State issued a resolution that Suri's activities and presence in the United States could banish him under INA sections 237(a)(4)(c)(i).
Pick-up teacher page Georgetown University lists him as a “post-doc associate.”
“Dr. Badar Khan Sri is a postdoctoral researcher for Muslims and Christian Alwalie bin Talal Understanding of Georgetown University Foreign Services in Washington, DC,” says his faculty member Page.
Politics The petition reports that the pickpocket “has no criminal history and has not been charged with a crime.” However, the article also states that “the petition claims that Suri's wife, Mapeze Saleh, had “connections with Hamas” and had once worked at Al Jazeera.”
The couple said they have been “docked and smeared for a long time” on a far-right website run anonymously to support Palestinian rights. The petition says Suri's wife, Mapeze Saleh, is allegedly “connected with Hamas” and once worked for Al Jazeera.
A 2018 article about the couple, published in the Indian newspaper Hindustan Times, said Saleh's father, Ahmed Yousef, served as “senior political advisor to Hamas' leadership.”
Conservative commentator Marina Medbin in X's post Share Screenshots from a Jewish News Syndicate (JNC) article I explained it The pickpocket's father-in-law, Ahmed Youssef, was “a senior Hamas figure in Gaza and an advisor to Hamas leader Ismail Honey.” The article also explained that YouSef “established the United Research Association, which was linked to staff in Georgetown.” The center is reportedly a “think tank related to Hamas.”
Ahmed Youssef was a senior Hamas figure in Gaza and an advisor to Hamas leader Ismail Honey. He also established the Research and Research Association, which is linked to officials at the Alwaleed Centre, where Georgetown and his son-in-law Suri are currently working. The United Research Association was a think tank of Hamas, which had been operating in the United States since T0 2004 in 1989. According to the Terrorist Research Project, it was founded by Hamas leader Musa Abumalzuk and served as the forefront of US Hamas activities, including propaganda and fundraising.
“Wait. Why is @Georgetown partnered with a think tank founded by Hamas and served in the interests of Hamas' propaganda in the United States?” Medvin wrote in her post. “The Hamas connection in Georgetown is deeper and more scary than any of us have ever realised. See who we are hiring at the “Alwaleed Centre.” ”
“There's no judge” has been reportedly assigned to the lawsuit so far, but the petition said Suri was “taken to a Virginia facility” and that another Texas detention center is “expected to be relocated.”
The Suri petition said he is expected to be transported to a Virginia facility and moved to a Texas detention center soon. On Wednesday evening, an online locator for immigrant detainees showed him at the Immigration Customs Enforcement “Stage” Center at the airport in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melgin shared a statement from Georgetown University post X. said the university was “unaware” that pickpockets are “engaged in illegal activities,” adding that it expects “the legal system will justly rule this case.”
“Dr. Khan Sri is an Indian citizen who has been properly recognized as a visa to enter the United States to continue his doctoral studies on peacebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the statement shared by Melgin said. “We do not recognize that he is engaged in illegal activities and have not received any reason for detention, and we support the rights of community members to free and open investigation, deliberation and debate, even when the underlying idea is difficult, controversial or unfavourable.
President Donald Trump's executive order starting in January It is listed That was US policy “to protect citizens from foreigners who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten national security, support hate ideology, and exploit immigration laws for malicious purposes.”
The executive order also said that in order to protect U.S. citizens, the US government must “have to be vigilant during the visa issuance process.”
“More importantly, the US must identify them before they enter or enter the US,” the executive order adds. “And the United States must ensure that recognized aliens and aliens that otherwise already exist in the United States will not be hostile to citizens, culture, government, institutions or establishment principles, and will support, aid, or support foreign terrorists and other threats to national security.”
