"Suri was a foreign exchange student at Georgetown University actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting anti-Semitism on social media," Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin posted to X Wednesday. "Suri has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior adviser to Hamas."

A Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow has been detained by the Department of Homeland Security, the university said Wednesday, as the Trump administration continues its immigration clampdown.

Badar Khan Suri, an Indian citizen teaching on an academic visa, was deemed “deportable,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said.