The NYT is now reporting that she was deported because she had attended the funeral for the former Hezbollah leader: The Department of Homeland Security said o

The NYT is now reporting that she was deported because she had attended the funeral for the former Hezbollah leader: The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon. When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who is Lebanese, “openly admitted” her support for the leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Homeland Security spokeswoman. Dr. Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/rasha-alawieh-brown-university-doctor-deported-hezbollah.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/rasha-alawieh-brown-un... (https://archive.is/fraB8 https://archive.is/fraB8) The article goes on to say that the Department did not say why they thought she had attended this funeral, but seeing it on her phone does seem like an obvious possibility. This is of course independent of the question of whether this should be sufficient to deny re-entry.