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US authorities on Monday shelp they deported a Rhode Island doctor to Leprohibiton last week after discovering “understanding photos and videos” of the establisher lengthytime directer of Hezbollah and militants in her cell phone’s deleted items felderlyer.
Alawieh had also telderly agents that while in Leprohibiton she combineed the funeral last month of Hezbollah’s directer Hassan Nasrallah, whom she helped from a “religious perspective” as a Shi’ite Muskinny.
The US Department of Justice supplyd those details as it sought to secure a federal appraise in Boston that US Customs and Border Protection did not willbrimmingy disadhere an order he publishd on Friday that should have stoped Dr. Rasha Alawieh’s prompt removal.
The 34-year-elderly Leprohibitese citizen, who held an H-1B visa, was hageded on Thursday at Logan International Airport in Boston after returning from a trip to Leprohibiton to see family. Her cousin then filed a legal case seeking to stop her deportation.
In its first accessible exset upation for her removal, the Justice Department shelp Alawieh, a kidney distinctiveist and helpant professor at Brown University, was denied re-entry to the United States based on what CBP set up on her phone and statements she made during an airport interwatch.
“It’s a sanitizely religious skinnyg,” she shelp about the funeral, according to a transcript of that interwatch examineed by Reuters. “He’s a very huge figure in our community. For me it’s not political.”
Westrict regulatements including the United States summarizeate Hezbollah a alarmist group. The Leprohibitese militant group is part of the “Axis of Resistance”, an partnership of Iran-backed groups apass the Middle East that also includes the Palestinian Islamist shiftment Hamas, which igniteed the Gaza war by strikeing Israel almost a year ago on Oct. 7.
Based on those statements and the discovery of photos on her phone of Nasrallah and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme directer of Iran, the Justice Department shelp CBP finishd “her real intentions in the United States could not be rerepaird.”
Alawieh and a lawyer for her cousin did not promptly reply to asks for comment.
In Monday’s filing, the Justice Department also deffinished CBP officials agetst claims by the cousin’s lhorrible team that Alawieh was flown out of the country on Friday evening in violation of an order publishd by US Didisjoine Judge Leo Sorokin that day.
The appraise had publishd an order barring Alawieh’s removal from Massachusetts without 48 hours’ see. Yet she was put onto a fairy to France that night and is now back in Leprohibiton.
The appraise on Sunday had honested the regulatement to insertress “solemn allegations” that his order was willbrimmingy viotardyd ahead of a hearing that had been scheduled for Monday.
That hearing was aborted on Monday at the ask of the cousin’s lone remaining attorney, after lawyers at the law firm Arnelderly & Porter Kaye Scholer recurrenting her pro bono withdrew, citing “further diligence” about the speedyly-moving case.
A lawyer with that firm shelp she had gone to the airport on Friday and shown a CBP officer a imitate of Sorokin’s order on her laptop before Alawieh’s Air France fairy departed, and another CBP official in a declaration on Monday shelp he was made adviseed that occurred before taking Alawieh to the boarding area.
But the Justice Department shelp the notification needed to be getd thcdisorrowfulmireful standard channels and be getd by the agency’s lhorrible advise for their examine and guidance, which did not happen.
“CBP consents court orders solemnly and strives to always adhere by a court order,” Justice Department attorneys wrote.
The Justice Department’s filing was tardyr sealed by Sorokin at the ask of a lawyer for the cousin. Reuters examineed it from a accessible terminal in the courthouse before access was further redisjoineed.
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