A forex student studying at Georgetown University was arrested by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday over allegations that they spread Hamas propaganda online.
Badal Khan Suri, a US Indian national and doctoral student on student visa, was accused of “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting anti-Semitism on social media,” an official from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement.
“Suri has close ties with known or suspected terrorists who are senior advisers in Hamas,” the DHS statement continued. DHS did not name any suspected terrorists or Hamas advisors.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined on March 15 that pickpockets' activities and presence in the United States made him “deportable” under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a senior official said.
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Badal Khan Suri, an Indian National and PhD student at Georgetown University, was arrested by ICE on Monday on allegations of spreading Hamas propaganda on social media. (Georgetown University)
This law is a rarely used legal law that gives the power to sweep Rubio to deport people “potentially severely adverse diplomatic impacts for the United States to have the impact of potentially unfavorable foreign policy.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio made Badar Khan Sri “enforceable” under the rarely unused immigration and nationality law, according to a senior DHS official. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, pool, file)
Rubio cited the same laws as the basis for the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student and Palestinian pro-activist who was detained by federal immigration authorities earlier this month. The judge said Halil could challenge him to detain him.
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A Georgetown University spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News that Sri has been properly granted a visa for entering the United States to conduct doctoral studies on peacebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“We don't know he is engaged in illegal activities and have not received any reason for his detention,” a university spokesman said.
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Suri, who is married to an American citizen, is being detained in Alexandria, Louisiana, and is awaiting the date of the immigration court, his lawyer told Reuters.
