U.S. officials have confirmed that a doctor who was working at Brown University was deported despite a federal judge ordering that she not be removed from the country.
U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin on March 14 ordered the government not to move Dr. Rasha Alawieh from Massachusetts without 48 hours of advance notice, but the doctor was subsequently deported to Lebanon, officials told the judge.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers “did not receive notice of the Court’s Order from their legal counsel until after Dr. Alawieh ‘had already departed the United States,’” Sorokin said in a March 17 electronic order, quoting from a government filing that has not been placed on the court docket….