Brown Medicine professor and doctor deported to Lebanon despite valid visa

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brown-medicine-professor-doctor-deported-lebanon-valid-visa-court-fili-rcna196638

by KnuthIsGod • 1 year ago

78 45 1 year ago

The apparent lack of any major uproar in the USA is worrying.

    First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out -
    because I was not an immigrant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

jisnsm3• 1 year ago

Yeah - just wait until they start deporting actual Americans to Lebanon!

Paul-Craft5• 1 year ago

You may be joking, but ICE is already detaining naturalized US citizens: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-hispanic-deta...

noobermin• 1 year ago

There are protests actually from looking at twitter. It's just that it doesn't make the news.

It's hard to tell, it doesn't look as massive as say the women's march.

chneu• 1 year ago

What even is "the news" anymore?

A majority, yes seriously a majority, of people under the age of 40 get their "news" from TikTok and social media.

"It doesn't make the news" is kind of meaningless nowadays.

fzeroracer2• 1 year ago

Given the ideological bent of people in favor of these actions, they will bend over backwards to invent a justification that makes this acceptable. CBP and ICE are both feeling fully empowered enough that they can just ignore court orders and not bother following the rule of law which should be considered a critical problem (especially by the people that were supposed to be 'I need guns to protect myself from the government' types) but I think it's increasingly clear the double think on brazen display.

Paul-Craft5• 1 year ago

The fact that this submission was flagged until I vouched for it is also worrisome.

MegaButts2• 1 year ago

The majority of political posts, especially those that make it to the front page, are very quickly flagged. It feels much worse lately which makes sense considering the political climate in the US.

apexalpha• 1 year ago

'Silence is complicity' as the Americans like to point out.

yusaythat• 1 year ago

Why water down what they actually say? They say "silence is violence", and they ALSO say that speech is violence!

jmclnx• 1 year ago

Yes, and he was 100% legal. Only proves recism is alive and well in the US

defrost• 1 year ago

See earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384730

Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order (nytimes.com)

82 points | 4 hours ago | 36 comments

p3rls2• 1 year ago

I had a Lebanese friend in medical school in the states and his racist rants about how he was considered white for his MCAT scores would make Goebbels blush so it's amusing how brown is used here.

The good news is he eventually got into a school in the Caribbean and today is practicing medicine in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Good luck everyone.

bookaway• 1 year ago

it's amusing how brown is used here.

Brown here is being used here to mean Brown University. In what way do you find it amusing.

p3rls2• 1 year ago

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pun

lma21• 1 year ago

Why is this flagged?

Chinjut• 1 year ago

It implicitly paints the administration, and thus Elon Musk, and thus Silicon Valley bigwigs, in a bad light. Very many of the users of this site will flag anything which does so, under the guise of politics being not of interest to hackers, even as many other users of this site express interest in such conversations. (Even for me to honestly mention this phenomenon is technically against the rules, though.)

edwardjlsh5• 1 year ago

It's (arguably) against site rules. It doesn't gratify ones intellectual curiosity and is something they'd cover on the news. There's a large uptick in political content this year, and I agree US news is crazy right now, but this site requires posting discipline or it'll become no different to a subreddit.

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

instagib• 1 year ago

“she was detained by Customs and Border Protection officers and held at the airport for 36 hours, for reasons that are unclear.”

Since both articles here and NyTimes are only posting the positive things about the professor, I’ll throw in a possibility. They scanned the professors phone, didn’t like what they saw, and end of story.

mcphage• 1 year ago

They scanned the professors phone, didn’t like what they saw, and end of story.

Is there any evidence of that?

And what sort of things could they not like, that would be sufficient for this action?

nkurz2• 1 year ago

The NYT is now reporting that she was deported because she had attended the funeral for the former Hezbollah leader:

The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon.

When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who is Lebanese, “openly admitted” her support for the leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Homeland Security spokeswoman. Dr. Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/rasha-alawieh-brown-un... (https://archive.is/fraB8)

The article goes on to say that the Department did not say why they thought she had attended this funeral, but seeing it on her phone does seem like an obvious possibility. This is of course independent of the question of whether this should be sufficient to deny re-entry.

Brown Medicine professor and doctor deported to Lebanon despite valid visa

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