A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.
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What you Americans have voted for.. it was all there layed out.. you all ignored that shit because more than 50% percent fell in love with a stupid orange.
I was venting. I know what happened, also, I didn’t vote for him. I’m sorry you’re having a bad day, we all are over here. If there’s anything I can do to help feel free to reach out.
I am sorry for all Americans who have to suffer that shit who didnt vote for him. Sorry for my hatsh comment. I am just so fucking outraged that the outrage in America is just missing while your democracy is just going down the drain... there should be millions on the street every day!
Americans are just so freaking stupid... It is just painful to watch... There should be millions on the street every day. Where are you? Or you just don't about democracy?
Oh, sorry then I misunderstood your comment. I'm German and watching all this is as if people are using history books as an inspiration instead of seeing them as a warning.
This is the second article this week I've read where someone with a valid visa or green card has been detained for an inordinate amount of time at Boston Logan airport.
Judges can order what ever they want,..but there is no one left to enforce that order..so the legal system is powerless and you are at the mercy of the dictator. Just stay away from open windows and you be fine.
Exactly. When a US citizen is convicted of 34 felony counts and walks away, scot-free, to become president of the United States, you know we’re fucked.
Eric Feigl-Ding, a public health scientist and epidemiologist “SICKENING—Trump's DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown University Medical School—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn't expire until 2027.”
Dr. Rasha Alawieh had committed no crimes. Her phone was seized too.
I wish her the best of luck in her court hearing. It’s weird Customs and Border aren’t responding to any WHY’s and there would have to be one, or it’s illegal,
So what is it?
They are working on orders from the top. I just heard a clip of Marco Rubio being interviewed. Trump is going after Muslims calling them terrorists. He’s making false claims that they support Arab terrorist groups in the Middle East. He’s linking it to their opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
The MAGA AGENDA has turned Rubio into a puppet to do whatever Trump demands! Lies and Alternative Facts are Rubio's talking points! I guess he forgot he is a son of Cuban immigrants!
Not unbelievable. "What Trump said" does not matter, and was a simple lie. Voters voted for the principle to deport people, and now this is what the voters get. It is the old fascist lie that a group of people is of lesser value and shall not receive the same rights than others.
America stands for Democracy and Human Rights! I believe immigrants are pawns in Trump's agenda! Deporting immigrants illegally is not the America way! Signing a proclamation late Friday is proof they are trying to hide their illegal activities!!
It's here he told you what was going to happen its what Americans wanted although I'm not convinced musk didn't buy votes to get him elected it's going to be a long 4 years
Don't you know thanks to stupid trump voters we live in a country that ain't the same and never will be again and the democrat party has lost everything so its up to each individual to navigate this disaster on there own
It’s great that all of these doctors and medical experts are being deported. Just think of how many of those folks who show up at MAGA rallies would qualify for those jobs, or at least could have cleaned their bathrooms. #ImpeachTrump #DeportMusk
This man must be impeached. All Dems in congress, mobilize to hold town halls all over the country, especially in GOP districts where the GOP reps and senators are MIA. “Since your own rep isn’t listening to you, we are here to listen and help.” LEAD, Dems! Resist! Come on!
Impeach and put Vance in? He is even worse with Peter Thiel backing him up. Then what? Speaker Johnson? This cannot be fixed with impeachment. The only hope is with the courts and if enough heat put on GOP house that they will will lose their seat. But that requires an active constituency.
That's why I say you better start acting now.
The more time goes by, the more of the executive organisations will be under full control of the dictatorship. And then, resistance will be very hard.
Resist now!
What kind of idiotic BS?! These actions are a signal to the world not to come to the US! Nobody is going to want to come and do research and thus creating a huge brain drain at a time when we need actual brains figuring shit out! WTH!?!?!
Beware. There is a far right Jewish group called “Betar” who is making a list of muslims who are on visa. They used to be considered an extremist terrorist group.
The second instance in two days of the Trump administration defying a judges order and deporting people anyway. Is anyone paying attention? If we let this go, the Judicial Branch means nothing and let the dictatorship begin.
The judicial branch hasn't meant anything in a long time, but we lost 3 equal branches of government when scotus ruled presidents were above the law, so even if the judicial branch does something, the white house can still do whatever it wants.
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#Elon (a truly illegal immigrant) and #TheFelon (who is not only a Russian asset but a convicted felon) must be held accountable for all the chaos and pain they are causing.
Holy shit! No one, absolutely no one, is safe right now. Thick, dark clouds are now permanently covering the entire United States. It's completely fucking crazy and scary.
Most people pay their taxes in advance through payroll withholding. Filing our tax returns is how we get back the overage that was an interest-free loan.
"there is a shortage of doctors [in America] with her specialty..."
Next family that loses someone to kidney failure without a transplant, can blame Homeland Security and Customs now.
Or figure out flying to Lebanon for healthcare.
More work Americans won't do: There is a shortage of American doctors working in Dr. Alawieh’s area of specialty: organ transplants. The field is known for grueling, unpredictable work hours, with doctors often flying through the night to pick up donated organs before performing emergency surgery.
I dare this administration to keep going. 23% of the doctors in the US are foreign. Please, go ahead and deport us all. There may not be anyone left to take care of you when you’re sick. Actions have consequences. 🤷🏻♀️
Take our money away from them.
Divest from the big 3:
Bezos (Amazon/Whole Foods) musk (Tesla/X/Starlink) Zuckerberg (Meta-Facebook/Instagram).
And these:
Ah I see. Well, as long as there are people who remember the story, regardless of consequences, I think it will matter. I think It could have meaning to someone. Even the people who participated in the illegal act, perhaps it weighs on their conscious.
Considering the NYT is part of the reason such things are happening these days, I won't be clicking on your link so your advertisers think people still read your paper.
You are part of the problem in America. Instead of writing something like this: “Brown University Surgeon and Professor Deported to Lebanon Despite Judge’s Order, Highlighting America’s decline into Authoritarianism due to Trump” MSM is part of the problem DO YOUR JOB
Seems extra stupid even for Trump. A transplant specialist. Can’t get much brighter or more specialized. Exactly the kind of person you keep. Just the worst decision making.
Am I reading the r article correctly that she may have had an improper student visa before being issued the H1B while in Lebanon? Basically, the exact same thing Elon did decades ago?
I read on Axios that she was in the US on a J-1 student visa. Seems there was a lapse in time of 8-9 months between when her H1-B visa (sponsored by Brown University) was approved and finally issued. Sounds like a government bureaucracy issue.
If they can arrest & deport people without court oversight or due process, there is nothing stopping them from arresting & deporting you or me. You might think - but I’m a peaceful & lawful US citizen surely I’m safe. But without due process - how would you ’prove it’ and to whom? This is very bad.
Disobeying a court order. Who will enforce it, and will the Trump administration just start ignoring court rulings thereby neutering the judicial branch?
Agreed. They do valuable long form reporting. I dislike some writers, esp Stephens who I'd to see tortured (gently). In '24 they put together many fact based charts warning about drumf. They're moderate. The insistence that they should be as progressive as Mother Jones is not helpful.
The NY Times was an absolute collaborator during the first two weeks of the Coup. It has slowly started to reduce the enabling
I don’t know of one could call it Kremlin ‘Ganda but please understand how an outlet can be rooted in fact but still
Manipulate and lie, as the times has done at this time
A shear, unadulterated demonstration of the Trump Administration's arrogance and most of all: stupidity! This group of boneheads, dredged from the bottom of the barrel, continue to perform acts of pompous idiocy. They seem incapable of learning or respecting the law.
Deport ALL foreign doctors Trump and you won't have to worry about ending Obamacare.
So you can be a South African white person that benefited from apartheid and relocate to Trumpland, but a kidney transplant specialist and professor cannot.
I think that is a good next step. If California and New York cut off federal support there will be problems.
Of course republicans will just blame them for the economic woes and the goldfish memory MAGAs will believe.
Yeah, it’s just every attempt at some sort of justice and progress fails and is twisted by propaganda and lies.
“This is the magic of the big lie, as Hitler explained in Mein Kampf. Tell a lie so big, advised Hitler, that people will not believe that you would deceive them on such a scale.”
Trump is trying to blow past the point of no return to autocracy. Grateful for forces in our great America working to preserve rule of law and democracy.
He’s following the script even though he may not actually know who Pol Pot is. Someone should ask him in a press briefing. Bet he’d go “Uh…I’m sure he’s a very fine person.”
Wow, deport criminals and murders Trump said. This has to stop. Republicans find your spine. You can stop this. Do it now or you too will have no power under a dictatorship. Wake up!
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But it’s FAR from half of us
Same with judges.
#TrumpMadness
It appears the only way to stop
the MAGA cult’s coup d’ etat
& the transformation of America democracy
into a authoritarian nativist Christian
evangelical fundamentalists theocracy
will be protesting in town halls,
in the streets
& at the ballot boxes,
if there is another election.
*
The regime is practicing "As Seen on TV" law. No surprise given who's running it, but our courts must not tolerate it!
Make America stupid again?
Are you deporting everyone with a HIGH IQ so Trump & Vance look smart?
I shudder to imagine the ferocity of reporting if the Times had to endure just one more second of Joe Biden seeming old.
#proLife
Canada!!!
Dr. Rasha Alawieh had committed no crimes. Her phone was seized too.
WTF?
#ETTD
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/communities/2025/03/16/rasha-alawieh-deported-ohio-state-lebanon/82468566007/
So what is it?
I mean, the Rule of Trump.
(Note: In Trump They Trust) 🤬
Fixed it.
Until one of them needs a kidney transplant. Then, it will somehow be Joe Biden's fault.
The US is way beyond the point this would be a viable option.
He wouldn't just comply. You better start to think, how to really get rid of a dictator.
Your democracy has gone. You better resist while you still can!
The more time goes by, the more of the executive organisations will be under full control of the dictatorship. And then, resistance will be very hard.
Resist now!
https://www.science.org/content/article/french-scientists-alarmed-disastrous-cut-research-budget
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/uk-universities-struggle-rising-costs-fall-international-students-restructuring-cut-jobs-4933096
We will be just another once great nation that fell apart.
After multiple decades pass & the USA is no longer the home of noble prize winners etc.
I've warned people
" It can happen here "
So...constitutional crises over... a transplant doctor?
WTAF
https://youtu.be/PXwtnEHsjyk?si=AbnWm606VAfsNg4Z
Source: https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-federal-government-2023
Trump’s henchmen seized a woman to illegally deport her; the court says no, illegal. But the dictatorship we live in does it anyway.
And these acts get repeated and repeated and repeated…
Next family that loses someone to kidney failure without a transplant, can blame Homeland Security and Customs now.
Or figure out flying to Lebanon for healthcare.
Divest from the big 3:
Bezos (Amazon/Whole Foods) musk (Tesla/X/Starlink) Zuckerberg (Meta-Facebook/Instagram).
And these:
Why was that?
Are you thick or something?
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You’re part of the Putin/Musk/Trump propaganda machine. GFY! 🖕🏻
Seriously, don’t promote them or share their articles.
WaPo I dumped.
in such depth ?
Should we all just let a goggle algorithm provide us with news ?
We were 100 times more informed & undivided when Cronkite & our local newspaper told us what was going on.
I'd gladly pay its subscription cost
But I don't see that happening 😞 in 2025
But the NY Times still has great $$$ resources , the kind required to truly cover stories from around the world
Great Journalists aren't free either
I'm not saying the NY Times is perfect, but they are still a source of Factual Media
The whole reason we are in this mess is the 38% of voters living in the Fox ,OANN world of RW propaganda who forgo newspapers & Fact based news
I remember when Republicans read the WSJ.
But again, they just don't have the established connections & resources of the NY Times.
& As much as I love the Onion, if that becomes our actual News 🗞️
Then we are all Screwed 😔.
The NYT is informing people- with half truths and distortions - normalizing fascism!
Stephens pisses me off
too
So smug 😏.
I don’t know of one could call it Kremlin ‘Ganda but please understand how an outlet can be rooted in fact but still
Manipulate and lie, as the times has done at this time
So you can be a South African white person that benefited from apartheid and relocate to Trumpland, but a kidney transplant specialist and professor cannot.
WTF!!
Ignoring the judicial was the next logical step in the dismantle of the rule of law
https://bsky.app/profile/germanwondering.bsky.social/post/3lkj527gamc2k
https://www.impeachtrump.org
this whole government is full of so many stupid incompetent bozos. #LockHimUp
Oh that’s too bad, he must have missed the email. CBP’s website lists his email address if anybody else would like to ask him for answers about this.
Of course republicans will just blame them for the economic woes and the goldfish memory MAGAs will believe.
“This is the magic of the big lie, as Hitler explained in Mein Kampf. Tell a lie so big, advised Hitler, that people will not believe that you would deceive them on such a scale.”
Isn't she an example of why we are proud to be a melting pot
Wtf are these clowns doing to our Govt.
Does America already have too many people like her ?
I think 🤔 not .
I hope you're not right
but I thought 🤔 the same thing.
That's too disgusting to even imagine
As if the US produces people like that in abundance.
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