Rasha Alawieh, an assistant professor at Brown University’s medical school, was deported to Lebanon after attending the funeral of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Alawieh, 34, admitted both her support of Nasrallah and her attendance at the February funeral to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers.
“A visa is a privilege not a right—glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied,” DHS posted on X. “This is commonsense security.”
DHS pointed out that Nasrallah — who was killed by an Israeli air strike in July — was a “brutal terrorist” who was “responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree.”
Alawieh, a Lebanese citizen and doctor, was on a H-1B visa, which is given to foreign workers working in “specialty…
