The Department of Homeland Security said Monday it had detained and deported Brown University professor Dr. Rasha Alawieh, despite a judge’s order that she was not to be removed from the U.S.

Alawieh told border agents that she had traveled to Beirut to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, the Department of Homeland Security said.

A federal judge canceled a Monday morning hearing for a doctor who was deported to Lebanon after demanding to know whether ...

Homeland Security officials on Monday said that a doctor from Lebanon who was deported over the weekend despite having a U.S. visa “openly admitted” to supporting a ...

Thomas S. Brown, a lawyer who handles immigration and visa issues for doctors affiliated with Brown Medicine, said that Alawieh was returning to the U.S. on a valid H-1B visa, which would have allowed ...

US president Donald Trump has been in the headlines for his new deportation and taxation policies. The U.S. has maintained ...

Protestors gathered outside the Rhode Island State House Monday night in support of Dr. Rasha Alawieh. Alawieh was a kidney transplant specialist at Brown University Medicine and was deported back to ...

"If you travel to Beirut to mourn the death of the terrorist leader of Hezbollah, there's no way in hell you should be allowed to keep your visa and stay in America," stated Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).

Dr. Rasha Alawieh had also told agents that while in Lebanon she attended the funeral last month of Hezbollah's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, whom she supported from a "religious perspective" as a Sh ...

Dr. Rasha Alawieh was detained at Boston's Logan Airport, despite having a valid H1B visa and employment with Brown ...

Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh was deported to Lebanon on Friday despite a federal judge’s order and holding a ...