The Trump Regime on Monday claimed that Brown University kidney transplant specialist Dr Rasha Alawieh’s phone contained, per Politico’s Josh Gerstein, “numerous” photos of “Hezbollah militants” including now-dead leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps General Qasem Soleimani, in the deleted items folder. This apparently is their justification for denying the H1B visa holder Alawieh reentry when she landed in Boston on Thursday and then sent to Paris despite a federal judge ordering CBP to provide 48 hours notice to the court of any such action.
“There is a shortage of American doctors working in Dr Alawieh’s area of specialty, transplant nephrology. Foreign-born physicians play an important role in the field, according to experts,” the New York Times wrote in their Sunday story about the Ivy League-educated physician’s ordeal.
Irrespective of the demand in her field, it does not appear from Gerstein’s tweet that the photos and videos were taken by Alawieh or she posed with the terrorists for selfies or anything like that and, irrespective of that detail, it’s worth asking why the fuck their word should be trusted on the assertion when they outright disobeyed an order to provide notice to the court.