Indian Students in US must comply with American laws: MEA on deportations

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said that Indian students in the United States should comply with American laws. His statement comes after the detention of a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University and self deportation of another student to Canada.

The External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that the two Indians hadn’t reached out to the Indian missions in the US for assistance. Badar Khan Suri, the post doctoral fellow at Georgetown was detained on Monday night by the Department of Homeland Security on charges of “actively spreading Hamas propaganda”.

A US federal judge has blocked Suri’s deportation from the US. The action against Suri came less than a week after Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian student at Columbia University, self-deported to Canada after her visa was revoked for allegedly “advocating for violence and terrorism” and involvement in activities supporting Hamas.