Trump admin ordered to explain deporting Brown University doctor– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Excerpt:A professor with a valid visa has been deported from the United States under the Trump administration despite a court order stopping the administration from doing so.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, is a Lebanese citizen, kidney transplant specialist, and professor at Brown University’s medical school, who traveled to Lebanon last month to visit family. Upon returning to the U.S., she was detained, denied entry, and flown out of the country.
Judge Leo T. Sorokin from the Federal District Court in Massachusetts ordered the government on Friday to provide the court with 48 hours’ notice before deporting Alawieh. Still, she was put on a flight to Paris, which is believed to be a stop on her way to Lebanon.
In a second order filed on Sunday morning, Sorokin said there was reason to believe U.S. Customs and Border Protection had willfully disobeyed his order to give the court notice before deporting Alawieh. The judge said he had followed “common practice in this district as it has been for years.”
