Brown University Doctor with H-1B visa held incommunicado at Logan airport for deportation after trip to see family in Lebanon

[adrianmonk]

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

www.theguardian.com

I have advised family and friends who have valid visas to delay any upcoming travel plans to the US. Especially the elderly who come here to visit their children. They may not be able to survive this treatment.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I hope so. But it's possible the Trump Administration will say, "Oopsie! The point is now moot." And the courts may agree without hearing the merits of the case.

DOJ says judge's deportation flight requests are 'continuing to beat a dead horse'​

 

[camille70]

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

www.theguardian.com

France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.

 

[camille70]

DOJ says judge's deportation flight requests are 'continuing to beat a dead horse'​

Bondi said he had no right to ask the questions he is asking.

 

[camille70]

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

www.theguardian.com

I've read speculation that people are being held this long because of the money private prisons make from housing them. I'm so sorry she had to experience this. I have family who live out the country. One came home in January and said she wasn't coming back as long as Trump was president. I thought she was over reacting but now I'm not so sure.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

www.theguardian.com

France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.

To be fair, similar things have happened before. The most concerning aspect of this particular case was that DHS claimed that his criticism of Trump and US policy could amount to "terrorism".

 

[essentialsaltes]

Georgetown University researcher detained by immigration authorities, lawyer says​

Indian national Badar Khan Suri was spreading “Hamas propaganda,” DHS said. His lawyer says he is innocent.

“Seeing our government abduct and jail another innocent person is beyond contemptible,” [lawyer] Ahmad said Wednesday night. “And if an accomplished scholar who focuses on conflict resolution is whom the government decides is bad for foreign policy, then perhaps the problem is with the government, not the scholar.”

According to Politico, Ahmad argued in the court filing — which is not accessible on the online court docket — that Suri was detained because of his wife’s Palestinian heritage and the couple’s political beliefs about U.S.-Israel policy.

[DHS spox] McLaughlin said on X that Suri’s “activities and presence in the United States rendered him deportable” based on the same section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that federal authorities have used to attempt to deport Khalil. That section of code allows the secretary of state to move to deport an individual if they have “reasonable grounds” to believe that the person’s presence in the United States could have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.”

In a statement, Georgetown spokesperson Meghan Dubyak said Suri was “duly granted a visa” to the United States to continue his research on peace-building in Iraq and Afghanistan and that the university expects the “legal system to adjudicate this case fairly.”

 

[camille70]

Soccer coach's Real Madrid tattoo got him sent to Salvadoran prison: lawyer

The Venezuelan national was reportedly on board the U.S. deportation flights a judge tried to stop over the weekend.

www.newsweek.com

 

[camille70]

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Georgetown University researcher detained by immigration authorities, lawyer says​

Indian national Badar Khan Suri was spreading “Hamas propaganda,” DHS said. His lawyer says he is innocent.

Judge blocks deportation of Georgetown fellow detained by immigration authorities​

U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles issued an order barring Suri's deportation from the United States "unless and until the Court issues a contrary order."

"The Rubio Determination and the government's subsequent actions... and plans to whisk him 1,600 miles away in the same manner as the government did in the case of Mr. Mahmoud Khalil, isolating him from his wife, children, community and legal team, are plainly intended as retaliation and punishment for Mr. Suri's protected speech," the complaint says, referring to the recent arrest of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

"We are not aware of him engaging in any illegal activity, and we have not received a reason for his detention," the university said in a statement. "We support our community members' rights to free and open inquiry, deliberation and debate, even if the underlying ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable. We expect the legal system to adjudicate this case fairly."

 

[civilwarbuff]

Sounds like some sort of process where she has her right to due process is called for.

Well, considering she is not in the US or even a US citizen......I'll take "NO" for $1000 Alec.........

 

[camille70]

U.S. authorities did not respond to a request from The Associated Press for figures on how many tourists have recently been held at detention facilities or explain why they weren’t simply denied entry.

I think it's because the private prisons are making money and also to send the message to others not to travel here.

U.S. detention of European and Canadian tourists creates fear over traveling to America

Since President Donald Trump took office, there have been multiple incidents of tourists being stopped at U.S. border crossings and held for weeks at U.S. immigration detention facilities before being allowed to fly home at their own expense.

www.pbs.org

 

[camille70]

Semi related. I didn't want to make a new thread.

Kristi Noem Takes Bizarre Revenge on Canadians at Library She Used as a Stunt

The American government is making it harder for Canadians to access the library in both countries where Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem pulled a bizarre “51st state” stunt earlier this month. Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border—it’s half in Stanstead, Quebec, and...

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Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border—it’s half in Stanstead, Quebec, and half in Derby Line, Vermont.

Although the primary entrance is technically on the American side, the library has long been treated as a neutral zone, where citizens of either country were able to enter as they pleased. As part of the agreement, U.S. border officers patrolled the area around the library and were authorized to search people’s bags.

However, American border patrol officers are planning to ban entry to Canadians through the library’s main entrance unless they first enter the U.S. through an official border crossing point, the president of the library’s board told the CBC.

A DHS official alleged in a statement to the Daily Beast that the library was being used for drug trafficking.

Beginning next week, the library will ask Canadian visitors to enter the U.S. through an official crossing point. It is also confirmed that it is planning to add a door on the Canadian side for those without a passport. Inside the library, visitors will be allowed to move freely, but they must exit through the same door they entered.

 

[Nithavela]

Semi related. I didn't want to make a new thread.

Kristi Noem Takes Bizarre Revenge on Canadians at Library She Used as a Stunt

The American government is making it harder for Canadians to access the library in both countries where Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem pulled a bizarre “51st state” stunt earlier this month. Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border—it’s half in Stanstead, Quebec, and...

www.yahoo.com

Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border—it’s half in Stanstead, Quebec, and half in Derby Line, Vermont.

Although the primary entrance is technically on the American side, the library has long been treated as a neutral zone, where citizens of either country were able to enter as they pleased. As part of the agreement, U.S. border officers patrolled the area around the library and were authorized to search people’s bags.

However, American border patrol officers are planning to ban entry to Canadians through the library’s main entrance unless they first enter the U.S. through an official border crossing point, the president of the library’s board told the CBC.

A DHS official alleged in a statement to the Daily Beast that the library was being used for drug trafficking.

Beginning next week, the library will ask Canadian visitors to enter the U.S. through an official crossing point. It is also confirmed that it is planning to add a door on the Canadian side for those without a passport. Inside the library, visitors will be allowed to move freely, but they must exit through the same door they entered.

Aren't they then still able to do drug trafficking inside the library?

 

[camille70]

Aren't they then still able to do drug trafficking inside the library?

Exactly. It's performative. Drugs are just the pretext to inflict inconvenience.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Georgetown University researcher detained by immigration authorities, lawyer says​

Indian national Badar Khan Suri was spreading “Hamas propaganda,” DHS said. His lawyer says he is innocent.

Georgetown researcher released from immigration detention on federal judge's order​

Judge Patricia Giles of the Eastern District of Virginia said the government failed to offer up evidence supporting Suri's detention, The New York Times reported. Giles said the government also failed to demonstrate that Suri was a threat to U.S. interests, according to the Times.

Suri, who was never charged with a crime, was detained at the Texas facility for two months, following his arrest by masked federal agents after he returned to his Virginia home on March 17. The agents informed him his visa had been revoked.

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and as for the OP

She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.​

A Rhode Island doctor who traveled home to Lebanon to visit family was prevented by U.S. Customs officials from reentering the country on Thursday at Boston's Logan International Airport and told she was being deported back to her home country, said a fellow doctor and a lawyer for Brown Medicine.

Despite a court order, she was deported to Lebanon.

Filings submitted on Alawieh’s behalf in anticipation of a previous hearing also claimed that CBP officers “wilfully” ignored court orders from a federal judge requiring 48 hours’ notice of her removal from Massachusetts when they deported her.

A government lawyer responded to these claims, explaining that given the “extremely close timing” between the court order and the flight on Alawieh was placed, officers did not receive the order until she had left the country.

The suit also challenges the officers’ use of an “expedited removal process,” rather than referring Alawieh’s case to an immigration court. It argues that with over six years of education and employment in the United States, Alawieh has “due-process rights that render the application of expedited removal to her unlawful.”

In response to the original petition, the DOJ argued that Alawieh did not have the right to due process because [just a reminder that the only way this sentence can end and be truthful is "she is not a person"] she was “an applicant for admission to the United States, and therefore only enjoyed the rights established by statute,” the response reads.

 

[Richard T]

I am not a constitutional scholar, but we will soon find out if she has the right to stay in the US after attending a terrorist’s funeral.

It is not primarily about the right to stay in this country, but more importantly the right to due process.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The one that surprised me was the German man. I didn't think Trump and ICE were targeting "white presenting" immigrants.

US Green Card holder stripped naked, "violently interrogated" by ICE—Mother

"Fabian said to me that he feels he's very fearful and is frightened," the man's mother, Astrid Senior, said.

www.newsweek.com

He was finally released two months later.

Green Card Holder Detained for Two Months Details 'Horrendous' Conditions​

Schmidt, who has had a green card since 2008 after moving to the U.S. from Germany in 2007, was taken into custody at Boston Logan International Airport in March upon returning from Luxembourg, he said. He later was transported and held in a Rhode Island detention facility.

 

[Nithavela]

He was finally released two months later.

Green Card Holder Detained for Two Months Details 'Horrendous' Conditions​

Schmidt, who has had a green card since 2008 after moving to the U.S. from Germany in 2007, was taken into custody at Boston Logan International Airport in March upon returning from Luxembourg, he said. He later was transported and held in a Rhode Island detention facility.

He'd probably think it was paradise if he was a citizen of one of the countries those conc.. detention facilities are meant for.