Agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested a foreign exchange student studying at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, who was reportedly “actively spreading Hamas propaganda.”
Badar Khan Suri, who was “studying and teaching on a student visa,” was reportedly arrested by DHS agents outside of his home in Virginia on Monday evening, according to a lawsuit filed by Khan’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, Politico reported.
While Ahmad argues in the filing that “Suri is being punished because of the Palestinian heritage of his wife,” who is an American citizen, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for DHS claimed that Suri “has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas.”
“Suri was a foreign exchange student at Georgetown
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