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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a doctor’s deportation lebanon who was deported bostonDespite having a visa, Logan Airport supported a Hezbollah leader and attended his funeral earlier this year, immigration officials said.
In March, kidney transplant specialist Dr. Rasha Alawieh brown universityDetained for at least 36 hours at Boston airport after arriving from Lebanon. The doctor was traveling with her family and during the journey she attended the funeral Hassan NasrallahFormer leader of Hezbollah.
Homeland Security officials say they reviewed Alawieh’s phone when he was detained and found images of “Hezbollah fighters and martyrs.” Alawieh responded that she was only interested in Nasrallah’s spiritual beliefs, but confirmed that some people in her family supported his politics.
Alaweeh’s case quickly gained national attention as her family launched a legal campaign to keep her in the US. At one point, a federal judge ordered that he not be removed until a hearing, but lawyers have said customs officials did not learn of this until Alawieh was deported back to Lebanon.
Late last month, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin dismissed Alaweeh’s case, arguing that he did not have the authority to grant her relief – specifically, saying that he could not lift a five-year ban on returning to the US as a result of her deportation.
An email requesting comment was sent Wednesday to Alaweeh’s lawyers.
Sorokin wrote on October 31, “This court cannot issue the order in this habeas action that Alawieh hopes to obtain.”
Furthermore, Sorokin pointed out Congress and a US Supreme Court decision from 2020 that upheld the fast-track deportation process and significantly limited federal district court judges from intervening.
The judge wrote, “The five-year bar on his return is not the result of a detention that he originally challenged as unlawful. It is a feature of the expedited removal order issued during that detention – an order that ultimately led to his release from house arrest in the cabin of an aircraft leaving the United States.”