EXCLUSIVE: A Temple University professor who was falsely accused of espionage is speaking out about the toll his arrest took on his family. “He was pinned up against the wall ... They didn’t even let him put shoes on,” his daughter told NBCAsianAmerica.
of holding federal agents accountable for violating constitutional rights. But Xi and his family say that they’re prepared to keep fighting, so that, at least some positive change can come out of their trauma, daughter Joyce said.
Xi said that when he was being driven away he attempted to flip through years of memories, conjuring anything at all that could’ve prompted such actions. But he was left puzzled. And for the next several months, the confusion would only continue alongside psychological stress his family would endure, his daughter said. They’d routinely find news crews pointing cameras into the blinds of their house, and they began feeling paranoia over mundane things like opening emails.
Xi is part of a long history of Chinese American academics and scientists who have been wrongly accused of spying for China. A couple years after Xi’s arrest, the Trump administration formalized a program called the “China Initiative,” aimed at addressing Chinese economic espionage. However, as many like Xi were falsely accused of espionage and their lives thrown into disarray, a growing number of scholars alleged that it instead encouraged racial profiling.
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