Rasha Alawieh, a Rhode Island doctor, was detained on Thursday in Boston after visiting family in Lebanon.
A federal judge canceled a Monday morning hearing for a doctor who was deported to Lebanon after demanding to know whether U.S. Customs and Border Protection had « wilfully » disobeyed his order to keep her in the country amid a challenge to her deportation.
Lawyers for the government said the doctor, Rasha Alawieh, « had already departed the United States » by the time Customs and Border Protection officers at Boston’s Logan Airport received notice of Judge Leo Sorokin’s instructions, the judge said in a brief order Monday.
Alawieh, a Rhode Island transplant doctor and assistant professor at Brown University, was detained on Thursday in Boston after visiting family in Lebanon, her cousin claimed in a lawsuit challenging Alawieh’s detention.
Sorokin ordered on Friday that Alawieh be kept in the U.S. and brought to a court hearing on Monday. He wrote Monday morning that « Dr.
