Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been released from an immigration detention center in Texas after a federal judge ordered the government to release him immediately.

Georgetown University, a postdoctoral fellow with Indian nationals, is now free to return to his Virginia home while his legal challenge to detention remains in court. Surry is also working with the Trump administration to deport him in another immigration case in Texas. According to Khan Suri's legal team, his next immigration hearing in the Texas case is scheduled for June 3.

NBC News reported that on the way to the detention center in Texas, Surry said: “No cost, nothing.

Judge Patricia Giles of the Eastern District of Virginia said the administration failed to provide evidence supporting Suri's detention The New York Times Report. Giles said the administration also failed to prove that Surry was a threat to American interests.

Surry, who has never been charged with a crime, was detained for two months at a Texas facility after returning to his home in Virginia on March 17 by masked federal agents. Agents told him that his visa had been revoked.

Department of Homeland Security officials said Surry was “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting anti-Semitism on social media. Surry has close ties to known or suspected terrorists and is a senior adviser to Hamas.” His lawyer denied the claim and said the government was retaliating against Suri and his wife’s support for Palestinians.

Surry's wife is Palestinian American, whose father-in-law lives in Gaza, once suggested a Hamas leader The New York Times Previously reported.

Suri is the latest scholar targeted by the Trump administration, aiming to get rid of detention. Just last Friday, Tufts PhD student and Turkish national Lumesa Öztürk was released from federal custody in rural Louisiana after a Vermont judge ordered the Trump administration to release her.