Despite having a legitimate card and a judge order partially preventing her eviction, a kidney transplant expert and professor at Brown University’s medical class, according to her attorney and court documents, she has been deported from the US.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, is a Syrian resident who recently visited her native country. According to a objection made by her aunt Yara Chehab, she was detained on Thursday when she arrived in the US. After finding” friendly photos and videos” of a former Hezbollah and militant leader in her mobile device’s deleted items files, the US department of justice said Alawieh was deported on Monday. Alawieh also disclosed to agents that she had previously attended the funeral of Hezbollah‘s leader Hassan Nasrallah, who she had supported as a “religious view” as a Shia Muslim, while she was in Lebanon.
The DOJ provided those details in order to show that US Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) did not intentionally violate an order he issued on Friday that should have prevented Alawieh’s immediate removal. Judge Leo T. Sorokin had instructed the government to give the court 48 hours ‘ notice before deporting Alawieh Friday night. However, she was forced to take a trip to Paris, probably to Lebanon. The judge claimed in a second order filed on Sunday morning that there was reason to believe that US Customs and Border Protection had intentionally disobeyed his earlier recommendation to give the court observe before expelling the doctor.
According to a transcript of the interview, she said,” It’s a purely religious thing.” He is a significant number in our neighborhood. It’s no political in my opinion. Hezbollah is deemed a criminal organization by European governments, including the US.
According to Court, CBP estimated that “her real purposes in the US could not be determined” based on the assertions and pictures of Nasrallah and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, on her telephone. Alawieh and her company, Brown Medicine, are represented by Thomas Brown, a prosecutor who claims that the US Consulate issued her an H-1B card while the physician was in Lebanon, which enables highly qualified foreign nationals to live and work in the US.
