A Georgetown University scholar described the fear he felt when ICE agents detained him and took him to a facility hundreds of miles away from his home in Northern Virginia.

“I saw a guy, masked, jumped out of this car, and then he said, 'Are you Badar?' I was shocked,” Badar Khan Suri told a town hall crowd at a Busboys and Poets on 14th Street NW Tuesday night. “How he knows my name? He was masked, he was not wearing any kind of uniform, no badges, nothing, he looked like a proper militia guy. How he knows my name? I said, I was, like, petrified.”

Agents arrested Khan Suri outside his home in Arlington, Virginia, in March. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security.

The Trump administration revoked his visa and claimed he was a threat to nationa

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