ICE arrests Indian Georgetown doctoral student, accused of spreading Hamas propaganda

A overseas speech pupil studying astatine Georgetown University was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) connected Monday implicit allegations that helium dispersed Hamas propaganda online.

Badar Khan Suri, an Indian nationalist and doctoral pupil successful the U.S. connected a pupil visa, was accused of "actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism connected societal media," a elder Department of Homeland Security (DHS) authoritative said successful a statement.

"Suri has adjacent connections to a known oregon suspected terrorist, who is simply a elder advisor to Hamas," the DHS connection continued. DHS did not sanction the suspected violent oregon Hamas advisor.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined connected March 15 that Suri’s activities and beingness successful the U.S. "rendered him deportable" nether the Immigration and Nationality Act, the elder authoritative said.

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Badar Khan Suri, an Indian nationalist and doctoral pupil astatine Georgetown University, was arrested by ICE connected Monday implicit allegations helium dispersed Hamas propaganda connected societal media. (Georgetown University)

The enactment is simply a rarely-used ineligible statute that gives Rubio sweeping powerfulness to deport those who airs "potentially superior adverse overseas argumentation consequences for the United States."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio rendered Badar Khan Suri "deportable" nether the rarely-used Immigration and Nationality Act, according to a elder DHS official. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool, File)

Rubio has cited the aforesaid statute arsenic grounds for the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University pupil and pro-Palestinian activistic who was detained by national migration authorities earlier this month. A justice has said Khalil tin situation his detention.

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Suri was duly granted a visa to participate the U.S. to execute doctoral probe connected peacebuilding successful Iraq and Afghanistan, a Georgetown University spokesperson said successful a connection to Fox News.

"We are not alert of him engaging successful immoderate amerciable activity, and we person not received a crushed for his detention," the assemblage spokesperson said.

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Suri, who is joined to an American citizen, was detained successful Alexandria, Louisiana, and is awaiting a tribunal day successful migration court, his lawyer told Reuters.