In the zealousness of its mass deportation campaign, the Trump attention, as Kit Johnson previously blogged, has not been concerned with complying with court orders. Sharon Zhang for Truthout sums up a story making the rounds:
“This weekend, the Trump administration deported [a] Brown University assistant professor and surgeon . . . to Lebanon, despite a Massachusetts court having ordered the administration not to remove her from the state that same day. [She] has a valid H-1B visa . . . and has lived in the U.S. since 2018, where she finished her medical certification.
According to a court filing . . ., [the professor] was traveling back to the U.S. from her home country of Lebanon, where she was visiting family last month, when officials detained . . . denying her access to legal counsel . . . . The U.S. District Court in Massachusetts ordered her not to be removed without at least 48 hours’ notice while the judge considered her case — but officials deported her anyway.
On Sunday, the judge filed another order saying that there was evidence that law enforcement agents had `willfully’ disobeyed the court’s order, . . . and has ordered the administration to respond to these `serious allegations.’”
News reports suggest that the deportation resulted because of the attendance of the professor at a “Hezbollah leader’s funeral on visit to Lebanon . . . .” For more details, click here.
KJ