An assistant professor from Brown College’s medical college with a legitimate visa was deported from the U.S. regardless of a decide’s order that she was to not be eliminated.
U.S. District Choose Leo Sorokin, an appointee of former President Obama, was set to carry a listening to Monday after Rasha Alawieh was deported to Lebanon however canceled it shortly earlier than it started. The deportation got here after Sorokin mentioned Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist, was to remain within the nation.
Alawieh was detained Thursday after returning to the U.S. following journey overseas. Sorokin on Friday ordered the federal government to offer 48 hours discover earlier than deporting her, however she was then placed on a flight in another country.
Her attorneys argue the federal authorities “willfully” disobeyed the court docket order.
“These allegations are supported by a detailed and specific timeline in an under oath affidavit filed by an attorney. The government shall respond to these serious allegations with a legal and factual response setting forth its version of events,” the decide mentioned.
In response to court docket paperwork, the federal authorities says Customs and Border Patrol officers didn’t obtain discover of the court docket order to maintain Alawieh within the nation till after she was deported and “[a]t no time would CBP not take a court order seriously or fail to abide by a court’s order.”
On Sunday night time, Alawieh’s attorneys withdrew as her counsel “because of additional diligence,” and her new workforce says it wants extra time to arrange. It isn’t instantly clear what led to her legal professionals withdrawing from the case.
Given all these developments, Sorokin determined to postpone the listening to.
Alawieh was on a H-1B visa that allowed her into the nation to work at Brown.
The Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) mentioned in a submit on the social platform X that Alawieh went to Lebanon to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, “a brutal terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree. Alawieh openly admitted to this to CBP officers, as well as her support of Nasrallah.”
The incident comes after the federal authorities started a deportation crackdown on school campuses beginning with Mahmoud Khalil, a inexperienced card holder who just lately graduated from Columbia College with a grasp’s diploma.
Khalil, described because the lead negotiator through the pro-Palestinian encampment on the college, is at present held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody as he awaits a court docket listening to.
“Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here,” President Trump wrote on social media.
The DHS additionally just lately searched two Columbia dorm rooms and revoked the scholar visa of one other scholar on the college.
Up to date at 12:57 p.m. EDT
