A specialist in kidney transplantation and professor at the Faculty of Medicine Brown University was deported from the United States, although she had temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court documents.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34 years old, a Lebanese citizen who traveled to Lebanon last month to visit his relatives, was detained on Thursday when her cousin Yarou Chehab filed to the United States.
Judge Leo T. Sorokin of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts ordered the government on Friday evening to deport Dr. Alawieh provided the court 48 hours. But she was on flight to Paris, probably on his way to Lebanon.
In the second order submitted on Sunday morning, the judge stated that there was a reason to believe that the customs and border protection did not intentionally consider our previous order to announce the court before the doctor’s exclusion. He said he followed “ordinary practice in this district, as it has been for years,” and ordered the federal agency to respond to what he called “serious accusations”.
Hearing in this case is scheduled for Monday.
The court documents on the case were provided by The New York Times Clare Saunders, a member of the legal team representing Mrs. Chehab, who filed proposals to prevent her cousin, and then asked her cousin to return to the United States.
Mrs. Chehab’s petition is appointed by several members of Trump’s administration as defendants, including the Minister of Internal Security Kristi Noem, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and the reigning Commissioner for the Protection of Customs and Borders, Peter Flores.
Thomas Brown, a lawyer representing Dr. Alawieha and her employer, Brown Medicine, said that while the doctor was in Lebanon, the US consulate had issued her H-1B visa, allowing highly qualified foreign citizens to live and work in the United States. Brown Medicine, non -profit medical practice, sponsored its application to the visa.
According to Mrs. Chehab’s complaint, when Dr. Alawieh landed on Thursday at Boston Airport Logan, was detained by customs and border protection and held 36 hours at the airport for reasons that are unclear.
Mrs. Saunders said in an honorary statement that she was going to the airport on Friday and announced there for customs and border protection officials – before the planned departure to Paris – that there was a court order that expelled to the doctor. She said the officers took no steps there and did not give her any information until the plane took off.
The agency did not respond immediately to the request for comment.
Dr. Alawieh graduated from the US University of Beirur in 2015. Three years later she came to the United States where she organized medical scholarships at Ohio State University and the University of Washington and then worked as a resident in Yale.
Before issuing a new visa, it organized a visa J-1, a type of commonly used by foreign students.
In the area of Dr. Alawieh is a lack of American doctors: organ transplantation. The field is known for exhausting, unpredictable working hours, and doctors often fly overnight to pick up the donated authorities before performing emergency surgery.
“It’s very disturbing for family life,” Dr. David Weill, former director of Stanford’s lung transplant program, which is now a consultant of hospitals. Because many younger American doctors are growing concerns about working and private life, “many hospitals turn to talented doctors from the United States to complete this work,” Weill.
Susan C. Beachy Research contributed.
