The Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) stated Monday on the social platform X the deported assistant professor from Brown College’s medical college attended the funeral of a terrorist in Lebanon.
The company stated Rasha Alawieh went to Lebanon in February to go to the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, a former secretary-general of Hezbollah.
He was “responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree,” DHS stated.
“Alawieh openly admitted to this to CBP officers, as well as her support of Nasrallah,” the company continued, referring to Customs and Border Safety (CBP). “A visa is a privilege not a right — glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is commonsense security.”
Alawieh, who was on an H-1B visa, was deported after a decide determined she would stay within the U.S., with the federal authorities saying in court docket filings that the brokers who despatched her in a foreign country weren’t conscious of the court docket order earlier than doing so.
In accordance with a court docket submitting seen by Politico, the federal government says Alawieh additionally had “sympathetic photos and videos” of Hezbollah members in a deleted objects folder on her cellphone.
She advised federal brokers she adopted Nasrallah’s teachings “from a religious perspective,” not a political one, Politico reported.
The deportation got here amid heightened tensions on campus after Mahmoud Khalil, a inexperienced card holder and former Columbia College scholar, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and one other Columbia scholar had her visa revoked.
