Georgetown student released from immigration detention after judge’s ruling

FILE – Mapheze Saleh wife of arrested and detained Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

A Georgetown scholar from India who was arrested amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students was released from immigration detention on Wednesday after a federal judge’s ruling.

Badar Khan Suri, who was being held in Texas, will go home to his family in Virginia while he awaits the outcome of his petition against the Trump administration for wrongful arrest and detention in violation of the First Amendment and other constitutional rights.