After immigration agents detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil over his involvement in pro-Palestine protests on campus, President Donald Trump promised it was just the beginning. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has since arrested at least two more students who are in the country on visas — one of whom had recently sued the Trump administration on First Amendment grounds.

DHS agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, outside his home in Virginia on Monday. According to a habeas corpus petition filed by Suri’s attorney, Suri was arrested on the same grounds as Khalil: the secretary of state deemed him a threat to the US’s foreign policy interests. In the petition, which was obtained and first reported on by Politico, Suri’s attorneys say he has “long been doxxed and smeared†by far-right groups. 

The petition also claims that Suri is being targeted because of his wife’s Palestinian heritage. Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, is a US citizen. In February, the official X account of Israel’s US embassy called out Saleh, claiming she was the “daughter of a Hamas senior adviser†and calling her pr …

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