Justice Department Says Visa-Holding Ivy League Doctor Barred From Re-Entry to the United States After Attending Funeral of Hezbollah Leader in Lebanon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Dr. Alawieh returned to Boston on Friday following a visit to her native Lebanon, though she was quickly detained at Logan Airport following an interview with Customs and Border Patrol agents.
45% : "CBP questioned Dr. Alawieh and determined that her true intentions in the United States could not be determined," a federal prosecutor wrote in a document to Judge Leo Sorokin of the district of Massachusetts.
45% : "Supported by an affidavit from the CBP Watch Commander, the government explains that CBP Officers at Logan did not receive notice of the Court's Order from their legal counsel until after Dr. Alawieh 'had already departed the United States' and that '[a]t no time would CBP not take a court order seriously or fail to abide by a court's order,'" Judge Sorokin writes in a court order.

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