From India to US detention: Trump's campus crackdown sends warning to foreign students

05/04/2025 07:27 France 24

Indian academic Badar Khan Suri met his Palestinian wife during a humanitarian mission to Gaza in 2011. More than a decade later, his lawyers say his wife’s identity led to his arrest, part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on anti-Gaza war protesters on US campuses. It sends a chilling message to international students eyeing US university degrees.

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