Had to go see it for myself….
So how long before a judge over throws this determination?
March Madness is blowing around in the wind.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114176197349277126
Doctor at Brown University Deported Despite Judge's Order
https://www.newsmax.com/us/rasha-alawieh-cbp-leo-sorokin/2025/03/16/id/1203071/
Sunday, 16 March 2025 10:09 PM EDT
A Rhode Island doctor who is an assistant professor at Brown University's medical school has been deported to Lebanon even though a judge had issued an order blocking the U.S. visa holder's immediate removal from the country, according to court papers.
The expulsion of Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, is set to be the focus of a hearing on Monday before a federal judge in Boston, who on Sunday demanded information on whether U.S. Customs and Border Protection had "willfully" disobeyed his order.
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin, an appointee of Democrat President Barack Obama, said he had received a "detailed and specific" timeline of the events from an attorney working on Alawieh's behalf that raised "serious allegations" about whether his order was violated.
The agency has not said why she was removed. But her expulsion came as Republican President Donald Trump's administration has sought to sharply restrict border crossing and ramp up immigration arrests.
A CBP spokesperson, Hilton Beckham, in a statement said migrants bear the burden of establishing admissibility and that the agency's officers "adhere to strict protocols to identify and stop threats."
Alawieh, a Lebanese citizen who lives in Providence, was detained on Thursday after arriving at Logan International Airport in Boston after traveling to Lebanon to see relatives, according to a lawsuit filed by her cousin, Yara Chehab.
She had held a visa to be in the United States since 2018, when she first came to complete a two-year fellowship at Ohio State University before then completing a fellowship at the University of Washington and then moving to the Yale-Waterbury Internal Medicine Program, which she completed in June.
While in Lebanon, the U.S. consulate issued Alawieh an H-1B visa authorizing her entry into the United States to work at Brown University, the lawsuit said. Such visas are reserved for people from other countries who are employed in specialty occupations.
Despite that visa, CBP detained her at the airport for reasons her family members have still not been provided, according to the lawsuit, which argued her rights were being violated.
In response to the lawsuit, Sorokin on Friday evening issued orders barring Alawieh's removal from Massachusetts without 48 hours' notice to the court and requiring her to be brought to a court hearing on Monday.
Yet according to the cousin's attorneys, after that order was issued, Alawieh was flown to Paris, where she was then set to board a flight for Lebanon that had been scheduled for Sunday.
Sorokin on Sunday directed the government to provide a legal and factual response by Monday morning ahead of the previously scheduled hearing and to preserve all emails, text messages, and other documents concerning Alawieh's arrival and removal.
Concerns have also been raised in other cases about whether the Trump administration is complying with court rulings blocking parts of its agenda.
The Trump administration on Sunday said it has deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador under seldom-used wartime powers, despite a federal judge's order temporarily barring such deportations.
Here we go with this kind of shit.
US Piles Pressure on Yemen's Houthis With New Airstrikes
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/us-yemen-houthis/2025/03/17/id/1203086/
Monday, 17 March 2025 06:38 AM EDT
The United States carried out new airstrikes on Yemen on Monday, the Houthis' Al Masirah TV said, expanding the biggest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since President Donald Trump took office in January.
Responding to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement's threats to international shipping, the U.S. launched a new wave of airstrikes on Saturday. On Monday, the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah and Al Jawf governorate north of the capital Sanaa were targeted, Al Masirah said.
At least 53 people have been killed in the attacks, Anees Alsbahi, a spokesperson for the Houthi-run health ministry, said on Sunday. Five children and two women were among the victims and 98 have been hurt, Alsbahi added on X.
The Houthis, an armed movement that has taken control of most of Yemen over the past decade, have launched scores of attacks on ships off its coast since November 2023, disrupting global commerce. The U.S. campaign to intercept missiles and drones has burned through stocks of U.S. air defenses.
The strikes, which one U.S. official told Reuters might continue for weeks, come as Washington ramps up sanctions pressure on Iran while trying to bring it to the negotiating table over its nuclear program.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said on Sunday the militants would target U.S. ships in the Red Sea as long as the U.S. continues attacks on Yemen.
"If they continue their aggression, we will continue the escalation," he said in a televised speech.
The Houthi movement's political bureau described the U.S. attacks as a "war crime." Moscow urged Washington to stop them.
The Houthis' military spokesman, without providing evidence, said in a televised statement early on Monday that the group had launched a second attack against the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea.
Israel has weakened a large part of Iran's "Axis of Resistance" against U.S. influence in the Middle East - including Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas since being attacked by Hamas gunmen in October 2023.
Top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders have been assassinated and fall of another Iranian ally, Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in December also dealt a blow to the Islamic Republic.
But the Houthis - resilient mountain fighters who defied a Saudi-led bombing campaign in a civil war for years - are still standing, along with pro-Iranian militias in Iraq.
U.S. WARNING
The Houthis said last week they would resume attacks on Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea if Israel did not lift a block on aid entering Gaza.
They had launched scores of attacks on shipping after Israel's war with Hamas began in late 2023, saying they were acting in solidarity with Gaza's Palestinians.
Trump warned Iran, the Houthis' main backer, that it needed to immediately halt support for the group. If Iran threatened the U.S., he said, "America will hold you fully accountable and, we won't be nice about it!"
In response, Hossein Salami, the top commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said the Houthis made their own decisions.
"We warn our enemies that Iran will respond decisively and destructively if they carry out their threats," he told state media.
U.S. warplanes shot down 11 Houthi drones on Sunday, none of which came close to the Truman, a U.S. official told Reuters. U.S. forces also tracked a missile that splashed down off the coast of Yemen, the official said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures": "The minute the Houthis say we'll stop shooting at your ships, we'll stop shooting at your drones. This campaign will end, but until then it will be unrelenting."
He said reopening freedom of navigation was a core national interest for the U.S. and that Iran had been "enabling the Houthis for far too long."
"They better back off," he said.
The Houthis suspended their campaign when Israel and Hamas agreed on a Gaza ceasefire in January. But on March 12 they said their threat to attack Israeli ships would stay in effect until Israel reapproved the delivery of aid and food into Gaza.
They'll hit the US…gotta get the US involved so that they will voluntarily send troops and so on.
The DGCP is wearing masks…wonder who all is going to help some escape?
I can confirm the litter boxes in school restrooms.
It's horrible to think tax payer dollars went to purchasing those damn things.
Well, throws out that theoretical theory, eh?
[They] are about to destroy the Statue of Liberty.