To Donald Trump’s America, where outrage spread across the nation’s left-wing papers at the weekend after it emerged that a Brown University professor had been deported from the country. Dr Rasha Alawieh had, the New York Times reported, a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her removal – and yet that didn’t stop Trump’s team from expelling her. But so desperate were lefty broadsheets – including the Guardian – to kick up a furore about it all, they didn’t wait to hear exactly why the Department of Homeland Security had made the move.
On Monday, the DHS explained in more detail about why it had deported the doctor, a kidney transplant specialist and academic, after the details of her recent trip to Lebanon came to light. Homeland Security has claimed that they expelled the Brown University professor after she attended the funeral of an, um, Hezbollah leader in February.
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