'Government abduction': Trump's DHS tries to deport Georgetown scholar legally in US

A Georgetown University researcher who hasn't been charged with a crime and has no criminal record was seized by federal agents this week, in what his lawyer described as "just another example of our government abducting people." Suri’s petition for release said he was placed in deportation proceedings under a rarely used immigration law enforcement mechanism that allows the head of the State Department to deport noncitizens if they're deemed a threat to U.S. foreign policy. "A 2018 article about the couple published in the Hindustan Times, an Indian newspaper, said Saleh’s father, Ahmed Yousef, served as a 'senior political adviser to the Hamas leadership,'" according to the report. “This is just another example of our government abducting people the same way they abducted Khalil.” President Donald Trump has explicitly said his administration is targeting people he refers to as "terrorist sympathizers." His rhetoric has been tied to recent actions, including the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident who played a major role in protests that rocked Columbia University last year.