New York Regarding the imprisonment of an Indian scholar whose deportation was temporarily halted, a court has given the US government one day’s notice to provide explanations.

On Thursday, federal judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered government attorneys to provide an explanation for the transfer of Badar Khan Suri from a Virginia prison center to Louisiana and Texas after his arrest in March.

Because they believe he has connections to Hamas, which the US has designated as a Palestinian terrorist organization, immigration officials want to deport him.

He works at Georgetown University in Washington as a postdoctoral fellow.

Suri’s attorneys were appealing to Giles, who had previously halted his deportation, to return him to Virginia and prevent his deportation.

He is now being imprisoned in Texas, and government attorneys want the lawsuit opposing his deportation to be transferred there.

Because Texas courts are seen as more conservative and may be pro-government, Suri’s attorneys worry that he is more likely to be deported.

Giles questioned the allegations of overcrowding in the Virginia detention center, pointing out that he had a room to himself in Virginia but was placed in a Texas facility where he was given a cot in a TV room.

“Are they moved like that in the middle of the night?” she inquired. Is that typical?

Suri taught a course at Georgetown University on “Majoritarianism and Minority Rights in South Asia” and has a PhD from Jamia Milia University in New Delhi.

According to the authorities, he has a connection to Hamas since he is married to Mapheze Saleh, a US citizen, whose father, Ahmed Yousef, served as an advisor to the Hamas-run government in Gaza.

Suri was charged by Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin for spreading “Hamas propaganda and promoting anti-Semitism on social media.”

Support for him has poured in, including from some Jewish religious leaders who sent a letter endorsing him.

His supporters staged a protest outside the Alexandria court to call for his release while his case was being heard.

“When someone can be abducted without cause, without recognition, and without charges, it is Kafkaesque,” said Representative Don Beyer, a Democrat in the Virginia State House of Representatives, who spoke to the demonstrators.

The administration of President Donald Trump has said that it is halting the deportation of students who are already in the deportation process, such as Suri, because they have committed even minor offenses.

A Palestinian student with a green card who spearheaded the anti-Israel demonstration at Columbia University was ordered to be released by a Vermont State court on Wednesday while his case is being decided.