

BOSTON, MA — A federal judge has ordered U.S. Customs and Border officials to a hearing at 10 a.m. to answer allegations they “willfully” disobeyed his order, deporting Rhode Island Doctor Dr. Rasha Alawieh, The Providence Journal reports.
Friday, U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin, in Massachusetts ordered U.S. Customs and Border officials not to deport Alawieh without 48 hours notice to the Court so that he could review the case. Nontheless, Alaweie was removed that night.
“Petitioner alleges that Customs and Border Patrol received actual notice of the Court’s Order described above and nonetheless thereafter “willfully” disobeyed the Order by sending her out of the United States. These allegations are supported by a detailed and specific timeline in an under oath affidavit filed by an attorney. The government shall respond to these serious allegations with a legal and factual response setting forth its version of events,” according to Sorokin’s order. The response was due at 8:30 a.m., prior to the 10 a.m. hearing.
Alawieh, specializing in transplant nephrology at Brown Medicine’s Division of Kidney Disease & Hypertension, and affiliated with Rhode Island Hospital, had been returning from a trip to Lebanon when she was detained at Logan Airport, according to a B Brown Daily Herald report. The doctor is a Lebanese national and holds a H1B visa that allows her to live and work in the U.S. as a professional at a U.S. university.
Sunday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, called on the Trump administration to immediately re-admit Alawieh.
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