(14 May 2025)
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Alvarado, Texas – 14 May 2025
1. Badar Khan Suri and attorney walking to car after being released
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Badar Khan Suri, Georgetown scholar released from ICE detention:
“I’m released today after an effort made by my attorneys. I’m extremely thankful to my attorneys. Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU, and my other attorneys who did it selflessly and were able to give a dose of justice me. Because delayed is justice denied. It took 2 months, but I’m extremely thankful that finally I’m free."
3. Various of Badar Khan Suri in car leaving facility
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Badar Khan Suri, Georgetown scholar released from ICE detention:
“The charges, there were no charges, as it was Kafkaesque. There was no charge. There was nothing. They made a subhuman out of me. They took me from one center to another, not letting my family know, not letting me know that I have attorneys.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Badar Khan Suri, Georgetown scholar released from ICE detention:
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“People here wait for ICE. They keep on requesting. People do not even know who their ICE officer are. I ask them, hey, put in request and ask who your ICE officer is. They don’t reply. So people are left in misery, as if they are not humans anymore.”
6. Various of The Prairieland ICE Detention Center
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Vosburgh, Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights:
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“Something that Dr. Suri has encouraged us to think of from the beginning is that there are many more people who are still detained. Both people who were in similar situations to him, you know, students who were targeted, Mahmoud Khalil, who our organization also represents, Leqaa Kordia, who’s right here at this detention center, and many more, and thousands and thousands of others who are wrongfully detained by immigration authorities. So I want everyone to celebrate this victory today, but recognize that this is a struggle that will continue.”
8. Various of The Prairieland ICE Detention Center
STORYLINE:
A Georgetown University scholar from India who was arrested in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students was released from immigration detention Wednesday after a federal judge’s ruling.
Badar Khan Suri will go home to his family in Virginia while he awaits the outcome of his petition against the Trump administration for wrongful arrest and detention in violation of the First Amendment and other constitutional rights. He’s also facing deportation proceedings in an immigration court in Texas.
“Justice delayed is justice denied,” Khan Suri told reporters after his release from a detention facility in Alvarado, near Dallas. “It took two months, but I’m extremely thankful that finally I’m free.”
Immigration authorities have detained college students from across the country — many of whom participated in campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war — since the first days of the Trump administration. Khan Suri is the latest to win release from custody, along with Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student from Turkey, and Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, said she was releasing Khan Suri because she felt he had substantial constitutional claims against the Trump administration. She also considered the needs of his family and said she didn’t believe he was a danger to the community.
The judge added: “The First Amendment does not distinguish between citizens and noncitizens.”
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