Professor at Brown University deported to Lebanon after attending the funeral of Hezbollah leader: DHS
Federal authorities have announced that Assistant Professor and Doctor University of Brown University deported to Lebanon Despite the fact that H-1B visa expressed support and attended the funeral of the murdered Hezbollah leader responsible for the death of hundreds of Americans.
“Last month Rash Alawieh traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend the funeral Hassan Nasrallah “The Brutal Terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for the murder of hundreds of Americans for four -year terrorism,” Ministry of Home Security Assistant, Tricia McLaughlin, she said in a Fox News Digital statement. ” Alawieh openly recognized this to CBP officials, as did her support Nasrallah.
“Visa is a privilege, not rights – glory and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is the basis for rejection of visas. This is healthy safety,” McLaughlin said.
Rash Alawieh, a 34-year-old doctor specializing in a kidney transplant who has been living on Rhode Iceland lately, was detained on Thursday at the Boston Logan International Airport, while returning from a trip to Lebanon.
The tens of thousands of bereaved vowed to support Hezbollah at the funeral of Beirut the murdered leader of Hassan Nasano Nasrallah on February 2, 2025. (Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images)
Alawieh questioned US customs and border protection and allegedly said to federal agents that she attended Nasrallah’s funeral, the assistant to US lawyer Michael USA wrote in a new submission on Monday.
Since then, the submission has been placed under the seal, but Politico and The Providence Journal have been able to report their content beforehand.
Alawieh allegedly stated that she supports Nasrallah “from a religious perspective,” but not politically, according to politics.
Federal authorities have also announced that they also searched Alawieh’s phone and found “cute photos and videos” Hezbollah leader, as well as materials showing “various other Hezbollah militants” in a deleted folder.
“By discovering these photographs and videos, CBP called into question Dr. Alawieh and found that its true intent in the United States could not be determined,” ” The impression of lawyers wrote, According to the magazine. “As such, CBP canceled his visa and thought Dr. Alawieh was unacceptable to the United States.”
Pedestrians pass by the building of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine from the University of Brown, January 30, 2019 in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott, File)
US District Judge Leo Sorokin, appointed former President Barack Obama, ordered a personal hearing regarding the Alawieh case to be held on Monday on Friday.
Sorokin ordered Alawieh not deported for at least 48 hours without giving to the court 48 hours of notification. Alawieh was allegedly put on a flight to Paris anyway and then returned to Lebanon over the weekend.
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Sorokin allegedly postponed hearing on Monday just before it was to start and delay it for March 25 to give an impression more time to respond to allegations federal agents neglected a court order in Alawieh’s sending from the USA
CBP official John Wallace said in a statement that federal agents were not informed of a court order through the appropriate channels before Alawieh was put on a flight to Air France on Friday, Politico reported.
Alawieh first came to the United States in 2018 to continue the nephrological scholarship at Ohio State University. She continued to finish a scholarship at the University of Washington and the internal medicine program on Yale.
The bereaved attended the funeral of the murdered leaders of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem sapphire on the periphery of Beirut on February 2, 2025. (Pp/AFP via Getty Images)
Her cousin, Yara Chehab, tried to intervene in court last week, while Alawieh was detained at the airport for more than 36 hours. Her federal lawsuit says Brown medicine Sponsored Alawieh for H-1B Visa Doing a docenta job.
Alawieh issued a H-1B visa on March 11 to deal with the assistant role of medicine and a doctor at Brown University. The lawsuit is said to have worked for Brown before issuing the current H-1B visa.
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Fox News Digital addressed the University of Brown, the US Law Office for Massachusetts District, the Ministry of Justice and Chehab’s lawyer, but he had not heard immediately.
