How Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Parented His Three Kids While in ICE Detention

How Badar Khan Suri Parented His Children From Immigration Detention Centre

He has now returned to his regular parenting days, bringing his kids to the bus stop, and said that he has earned the privilege of being identified as the favourite parent in the household.

After ICE detention, Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri reflects on parenting from behind bars

For months while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown University postdoctoral scholar who was targeted for deportation by the Trump administration, said he spun a tale for his 5-year-old sons to help them cope with his absence. “For my younger twins, I created a story they could hold on to: I told them I was traveling and had gotten lost somewhere in the clouds, trying to find my way back home,” Khan Su…

How Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri parented his three kids while in ICE detention

Khan Suri said parenting from detention “was one of the most heartbreaking parts of my experience — but also the one that kept me going.”