BADAR KHAN SURI
They came for a professor. They left his children crying in the driveway.
Badar Khan Suri didn’t carry a weapon. He carried a syllabus.
A postdoc at Georgetown, he taught courses on peacebuilding, minority rights, and international diplomacy. His lectures challenged power with principle. His research gave voice to the stateless. That was his crime.
DHS never accused him of violence. Never accused him of lying. Just thinking too loudly. Being too brown, too bold, too unwilling to shut up.
And so, in March 2025, they grabbed him.
Masked agents. No warning. Broad daylight. His children watched from the window. His wife — a U.S. citizen — screamed as the SUV pulled away. Georgetown stayed silent for three days. Then the protests began. Students. Professors. Even Jewish alumni. All demanding his release.
The government didn’t care.
What evidence did they offer? His father-in-law was once a Hamas spokesperson. That’s it. No charges. No trial. No defense. Just guilt by association, passed down like a curse.
They revoked his visa. Hauled him to Texas. Locked him away without a single charge.
As of April 2025, he remains detained at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. He has not been deported. He has not been charged. A federal judge has temporarily blocked his removal while his legal team fights back. His next immigration court hearing is scheduled for May 6.
They call him a national security threat.
We call him a scholar silenced.
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It's a good article. And it sounds like it's all the evidence the government needs to deport them or worse. Give them legal justice. A trial. Presentation of evidence. A decision by a judge. That is what is missing under the current policies.
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