India, March 20 -- US President Donald Trump's administration has detained Badar Khan Suri, an Indian student studying at Washington's Georgetown University, for alleged ties with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and spreading its propaganda on social media, Fox News reported on Thursday, citing a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.

The Donald Trump administration is seeking to deport him after deeming him a harm to US foreign policy, the student's lawyer said.

Badar Khan Suri's lawyer added that he been detained in Alexandria, Louisiana, and is awaiting a court date in immigration court. He also said Suri was arrested by federal agents arrested outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, on Monday night.

The statement, ...