Protest activity or affiliation

Foreign man allowed to go out in public again.

A federal district court judge in Virginia ordered the release of Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri on Wednesday, marking at least the third time a detained student or academic targeted by the Trump administration because of their protest activity or affiliation was released from immigration detention.

Khan Suri was detained by masked federal officers outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, in March. Khan Suri was moved across multiple state lines shortly after his arrest and has been held in custody in a Texas detention center.

Well obviously we don’t want students and scholars in this country, so no crossing of state lines is too much to punish them. Also the masking is fine because it just is.

He is an Indian national postdoctoral fellow and was in the United States on a valid visa before his arrest. He is married to a US citizen.

That’s no excuse! Having a valid visa is not good enough! You have to have at least ten of them, and be missing an arm.

Suri has not been charged with a crime, but the Trump administration revoked his student visa and accused him of having ties to Hamas, a terrorist organization.

Khan Suri’s attorneys filed multiple motions with the court challenging the legality of his detention, arguing their client was targeted in part because his wife is a Palestinian American. Khan Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh is also a former employee of the Qatari-based news network Al Jazeera, according to court documents.

Saleh said she posted on social media to show her support for the people of Gaza after the start of the Israel-Gaza war, court documents show.

Therefore it was necessary to drag her husband from Virginia to Texas and lock him up and throw away the key. What a beacon of human rights we are.

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