The Trump administration deported Lebanese doctors and assistant professors who were allegedly attending funerals for terrorist leaders and carrying sympathetic substances to other commanders.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Confirmed On Monday of X, they carried out the deportation of Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese national who previously lived in the United States and worked on an American visa.
“Last month, Rasha Alawyer traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend Hassan Nasrara’s funeral, a brutal terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans in the surge of four years,” DHS said in a public statement. “Arawie has publicly admitted this [Customs and Border Protection] Supporting officers and Nasrara. ”
She admitted to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials for attending Nasrara’s funeral, but she said she supported him “from a religious perspective” and not from a political perspective. Politics. Law enforcement officials claim they found “sympathetic” videos and images of several other top Hezbollah leaders in deleted files on her mobile phone, the outlet reported. (Related: Left-wing group appeals to Trump administrators to stop deporting anti-Israel foreign student protesters)
“Visas are privileges, not rights. Glory and support for terrorists who kill Americans is the basis for rejecting the basis for issuing a visa,” the DHS statement continued. “This is common sense security.”
BEIRUT, Lebanon – February 23: Illustrations of former Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrala and Hashem Safiedin can be seen on the funeral stage at Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, February 23, 2025. (Photo: Image of Daniel Carde/Getty)
Alawieh, a 34-year-old kidney transplant physician and assistant professor at Brown Medicine and Rhode Island Hospital, was prevented from re-entering the US when he arrived in Boston, Logan Airport from Lebanon on Thursday. According to Court documents.
U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin, former President Barack Obama, appointee; order In order for the Trump administration on Friday to not remove Alawie from the country without the time to try to keep Alawie’s habeas corpus petition in the United States, she was eventually placed on the Air France flight boundary in Paris on Friday night, returning to Lebanon before CBP officials received a formal notice of court orders. According to Boston Gloves.
Following her removal from the US, Sorokin cancel A court hearing originally set for Monday. Alawie’s deportation is the latest in a series of removals and arrests of foreigners allegedly sympathetic to the terrorist organization.
DHS has been arrested and is about to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born Palestinian who led the campus protest at Columbia University in 2024. There is also DHS Arrest He is another Palestinian citizen and has revoked his visa for an Indian citizen.
Israeli airstrikes killed Nasrala in September 2024, ending the three-year reign of Lebanese clergy over the designated terrorist organization Hezbollah. Then-President Joe Biden called the strike a “measure of justice” for thousands of Nasrala victims, and said he and Hezbollah were “responsible for killing hundreds of Americans in the four-year terrorist rule.”
Several major news outlets reporting on Alawie’s deportation did not appear to mention Nasrara’s funeral attendance. New York Times, The new republic and NBC News.
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