Badar Khan Suri, a scientist of Georgetown University of India, who was arrested in the middle of Trump’s intervention against foreign students, was released from immigration on Wednesday
Khan Suri will now go home to his family in Virginia, but he is waiting for his petition against Trump’s administration for unauthorized arrest and detention.
“Justice is delayed by justice,” Khan Suri told reporters after his release from a detention center in Alvarad near Dallas. “It took two months, but I am extremely grateful that I am finally free.”
Khan Suri also faces deportation proceedings at the Immigration Court in Texas.
“My ankles, my wrist, my body”, says Khan Suri
Khan Suri was arrested by masked, simple officers on the evening of March 17, outside his housing complex in Arlington in Virginia. Then he was laid on the plane to Louisiana and later to the detention center in Texas.
When he talked about the conditions under which he was exposed, Khan Suri said that he was not sure where he was accepted and treated as a subway as reported in the first few days NBC News.
“The first seven, eight days, I even missed my shadow,” he said. “It was Kafka-Esqe where they took me what they did to me. I was attached-my ankles, wrist, my body. Everything was strapped.”
Inside the Khan Suri retention center, he described the device as non -hygienic and said he had tried to invoke his concerns with the Ombudsman, but never received an answer. He was afraid whether his three children would be damaged.
Khan Suri said he was afraid in the middle of his detention as his three children could.
“I was just worried,” Oh, my children suffer because of me, “my eldest son has only nine and my twins are only five,” Khan Suri said. “My nine -year -old man knows where I am. He was walking very harsh times. My wife told me she was crying. He needs support from mental health.”
Trump’s administration said she had canceled the Khan Suri visa because of his social media contributions and his wife’s connection with Gaza as a Palestinian American. He was accused of supporting Hamas, which the US designated as a terrorist organization.
Immigration authorities detained university students from all over the country-from many from the first days of Trump’s administration participated in protests on the campus over the war of Israel. Khan Suri is the latest who won the release of custody, along with Rumeysa Ozturk, student of Tufts University from Turkey, and Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian student at Columbia University.
(With NBC News and AP inputs)
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