DHS Denies Reentry for Brown U. Professor Due to Attending Terrorist Funeral in Lebanon
Rasha Alawieh attended the “funeral of Hassan Nasrallah— a brutal terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree.”
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed it denied reentry for Brown University professor Rasha Alawieh due to her attending a funeral of a designated terrorist in Lebanon.
Last month, Rasha Alawieh traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah— a brutal terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree. Alawieh openly admitted to this to CBP officers, as well as her…
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) March 17, 2025
Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese doctor and Brown University professor here on a visa, just got DEPORTED after feds found out she attended a funeral for HEZBOLLAH TERROR CHIEF Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/XGo6HOqwTO
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 17, 2025
Alawieh landed in Boston over the weekend where Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detained her for around 36 hours.
The Department of Justice discovered “sympathetic photos and videos” of Hezbollah people on her phone. She also attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon.
Alawieh claimed she is apolitical and had images on her phone “because those leaders are revered by many Shia Muslims.”
From Politico:
“CBP questioned Dr. Alawieh and determined that her true intentions in the United States could not be determined,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Sady wrote in a court filing Monday.
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“So I have a lot of Whatsapp groups with families and friends who send them. So I am a Shia Muslim and he is a religious figure. He has a lot of teachings and he is highly regarded in the Shia community,” Alawieh said, according to the transcript filed in court Monday.
“I think if you listen to one of his sermons you would know what I mean. He is a religious, spiritual person, as I said, he has very high value. His teachings are about spirituality and morality,” she added about the sheikh, who was killed last September in an Israeli airstrike on his bunker in the Beirut suburbs.
Asked if she supported Nasrallah “in any way,” Alawieh initially denied doing so but later appeared to acknowledge that she supported and admired him “from a religious perspective.”
When questioned about photos of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Alawieh said that was typical of Shia Muslims. “It has nothing to do with politics,” the physician added. “It’s a purely religious thing. He’s a very big figure in our community.”
Asked why she appeared to have deleted some photos a day or two before arriving in the U.S., Alawieh replied, “Because I don’t want the perception. But I can’t delete everything. But I know I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m not related to anything politically or militarily.”
Alawieh also said she probably did know about the U.S. terrorism designation for Hezbollah. “I’m not much into politics, but yes,” she said.
DHS did not deport Alawieh. They denied her reentry, canceled her visa, and could be barred from reentering America for five years.
Outlets brought up the reentry denial happened before a hearing on Monday discussing if the “government defied an order he issued Friday requiring that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.”
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin postponed the hearing, partly because Alawieh changed counsel.
The government has one week “to submit further information about what happened with Alawieh.”
Okay, so CBP detained Alawieh on Thursday for around 36 hours.
On Friday, Alawieh’s cousin filed a habeas corpus petition, which got on the docket at 6:43 PM.
Sorokin’s order to not move Alawieh outside the Massachusetts district at 7:18 PM.
CBP officers escorted Alawieh to a gate around 7:20 PM for a flight to Paris. It departed at 7:43 PM and took off at 7:59 PM.
Clare Saunders, a member of Alawieh’s legal team, said she was at the Boston airport when Sorokin filed the order. She insisted she told a CBP officer about the order.
Once the order went through, Saunders claimed she couldn’t reach a CBP officer to tell them about it and tried calling the number at the CBP office eight times.
When that didn’t work she went to a police kiosk and slammed the emergency button at 7:55 PM.
But by then, as stated above, Alawieh was already on the plane.
CBP offered Sorokin an explanation:
CBP official John Wallace said in a sworn declaration filed with the court that CBP officials at Boston’s Logan Airport hadn’t received formal notification of the court order through official channels before Alawieh was put on an Air France flight bound for Paris Friday night.
“At no time, would CBP not take a court order seriously or fail to abide by a court’s order,” Wallace wrote, while adding that the agency only acts on orders it gets from its legal counsel or is able to verify with that counsel.
“Due to the extremely close timing between the issuance of the court order in this case and the boarding time of [the Air France flight] CBP did not receive the court’s orders until after the flight departed the United States,” Wallace added.
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Good. We need sensible policies like this.
Lol
Turn AI loose on social media platforms to gather basic info about these Aliens from public sources. Use their own social media posts to provide a basis for removal, exclusion, denial and/or the starting point to dig deeper.
Just do not let our side do the “warning, not a how-to” thing like the Left does. I do NOT want “Born In East LA” being played out for real.
This is a wonderful idea! Or not! Depending on who is in power.
I don’t see how full knowledge of the viewpoints expressed in public on social media by Aliens seeking entry, reentry or extension of their (very much revocable) permission to remain in the USA as our guest is at all troublesome. Once someone puts it online into public then just like waking down the public street there isn’t any expectation of privacy. Anyone worried about what the Govt may find out about them from online posts is well advised not to
post it online, especially when they post it where it is viewable by public.
Apolitical her fat ass. Put her on a Minuteman III and fire her back to Lebanon. Send the cousin her lawyer and the judge too.
Ok. Use a peacekeeper missle
It’s an entirely Executive function to deny or revoke visas. Judicial branch can go pound sand. Period.
It is a judicial function to decide whether the visa has been denied or revoked unlawfully. The executive has no inherent power over visas at all; it has only that power that the legislature has delegated to it. And it’s the judiciary’s function to decide whether a given case falls within that delegated power or outside it.
In addition, it is absolutely a judicial function to issue writs of habeas corpus, which the executive must obey. It is also the judicial function to hear applications for such writs, and to make whatever orders are necessary to protect its jurisdiction while such applications are pending.
She found out that Nasrallah is detested by Americans. She should be permanently banned from America. Now start tracking down her known associates so that she can have a lot of company.
Nasrallah was such a moral man.
I have always had a problem with those who believe an omnipotent being needs the murdering dregs of society to fulfill it’s ends. Some how that just doesn’t seem very omnipotent.
I was led to believe he was an “austere scholar.”
It’s good except that the guy shares the opinion with a large number of Americans. This comes from arguing “Who’s more oppressed,” on which the two sides are about equal, instead of “Who’s moral and who’s immoral,” which would be easy to win. So it looks mostly like a free speech issue instead of a security issue.
Is Morality a hard science? I thought one culture’s definition of what is moral is not necessarily the same as another culture’s. I need to learn more about this Hassan Nasrallah person and his opinion so that I can understand what he had in common with that large number of Americans.
What Hardin is trying to say is he hates Jews, just like Nasralla did.
“ When that didn’t work she went to a police kiosk and slammed the emergency button at 7:55 PM.”
She should have been arrested for humbuggery!
Improper use of the emergency button…then put the lawyers fat ads in the next seat in the plane 
The lawyer should be put on the no-fly list for screwing with airport security.
Preventing a kidnapping is a legitimate emergency. The fact is that the order had been made, and was being violated.
Sorta like the January 6 captives.
For four years, conservatives had to walk softly for fear of their government, yet she is free to go to worship and mourn the death of a terrorist.
Would I love to see equal application of laws.
“He is a religious, spiritual person, as I said, he has very high value. His teachings are about spirituality and morality,”
.. I was told the same thing about Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye.
I am sorta fond of Jim Jones myself.
/s
These intellectual Pygmies are very slow on understanding that there is a new sheriff in town and the rules have changed.
She could have got away with it under the previous regime but times have changed, for the better!!
It doesn’t sound like her responses were very honest. But even if they were, saying a terrorist, “has high value” should be a disqualifier for entry into the U.S. all by itself.
omar is still a “better” terrrrorist
Everyone on her contact list should be deported too.
What a terrible loss for America.
Not.
I’m sure it was fun showing up to class and hearing that the professor got banned from the US but the type of people in her classes would likely take that as proof that she was a great professor.
Repeat ad infinitum, please.
Islamofascist/terrorist-supporting Muslims in the U.S. have become entirely too brazen, comfortable and complacent, under decades of the vile Dhimmi-crats’ kowtowing, enabling, deference and kid gloves treatment.
Should have put her on the “no fly” list as well.
The idea of a kind of firewall between the religious and political spheres is a Western product of the Enlightenment. It has no parallel in the culture of Hezbollah.
How does some rando professor get a judge to react to anything in 30 minutes?
No one had a right to enter the US. If you support a terrorist and a terrorist group then stay the hell out. Bye
Milhouse will tell you that this isn’t the definition of support.
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