Georgetown Researcher Badar Khan Suri Calls 2-Month Immigration Detention a ‘Nightmare, Like a Hell’

Georgetown researcher Badar Khan Suri calls 2-month immigration detention a ‘nightmare, like a hell’

Suri spent nearly two months in a Texas detention center after ICE agents arrested him outside his Virginia home. Suri is one of a number of international scholars and students tangled up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on campuses.

“Once that door was closed in the interrogation area, I knew things would become more intense.” Fabian Schmidt has come to pick up his father at the same Boston airport, where immigration agents arrested Schmidt in March, and then detained him for two months. Schmidt is one of several permanent legal residents who have been caught in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. “We were a little scared to come to this airport.” “I imagin…