ISIS bride Hoda Muthana's family files lawsuit against Trump

Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY Published 9:05 a.m. ET Feb. 22, 2019 | Updated 9:10 a.m. ET Feb. 22, 2019

Hassan Shibly, an attorney for Hoda Muthana, speaks on the phone from his office in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 20, 2019. (Photo11: Chris O'Meara, AP)

The father of an American woman who traveled from her home in Alabama to marry an Islamic State fighter filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration as part of an effort to get her and his 18-month-old grandson returned to the United States.

Lawyers acting for Ahmed Ali Muthana, a former diplomat at the United Nations for Yemen who is a naturalized U.S. citizen and lives in Alabama, argue in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington D.C. late Thursday that remarks by Trump and other senior White House officials claiming that Hoda Muthana, 24, is no longer a U.S. citizen – thus barring her and her son from re-entering the USA – are unconstitutional.

Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr are named as defendants in the case. Trump said Wednesday he had instructed Pompeo to deny Muthana re-entry. Pompeo said she was not a U.S. citizen and has no "legal basis" to be brought back to American soil from the Kurdish-run refugee camp in northern Syria where she is being held with her young son, named in the suit as John Doe Muthana.

More: Trump: ISIS wife Hoda Muthana won't be allowed to return to United States

Muthana joined the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, in 2014 after telling her parents she was going to Atlanta, Georgia, as part of a field trip connected with her business studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Instead, she withdrew from college and used her tuition reimbursement to purchase a plane ticket to Turkey, according to court documents.

From Turkey, she traveled to Syria, where she married twice, both times to ISIS fighters who later died in combat. Muthana fled to the al-Hawl refugee camp in December last year amid the collapse of the ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

Hassan Shibly, a Florida-based legal representative for her family, told USA TODAY in an interview this week that Muthana now wants to return to the USA to take responsibility for her actions, and for the sake of her son. She accepts she would likely be charged with providing material support to terrorism and need to serve time in jail.

She has also expressed remorse for what she did and claimed that she was "brainwashed" into going to Syria and partly motivated by youthful "arrogance." If permitted to return, Muthana has vowed to help de-radicalize other Americans.

However, the Trump administration has determined, apparently unilaterally without taking any specific action in courts or formally moving to revoke Muthana's citizenship, according to her father's lawsuit, that New Jersey-born Muthana never qualified for U.S. citizenship in the first place because at the time of her birth her father was a diplomat.

A person born in the U.S. to a foreign diplomat is not normally subject to U.S. law and is also not automatically a U.S. citizen at birth, according to the Immigration and Nationality Act………. moar

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>>5324009

I'm going to do a short dig… I remember when she left or whatever there was news around it….. my mind is not recallin but something about her being told she couldn't come back at that time and did she understand that …I could be wrong but ever since I saw the name and issue come up it's been gnawing me..

off to get dirt under my nails…..

The Latest: Official: Maduro 'constantly' talks with Putin

Venezuela's deputy foreign minister who is visiting Moscow says the embattled Venezuelan president is in persistent contact with Russia's leader

Youths wearing white T-shirts and Venezuelan flags hike through an unmarked trail between high bushes to sneak into Colombia, for the "Venezuela Aid Live" concert on the Colombian side of the border, in Palotal, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Venezuela's power struggle is set to become a battle of the bands Friday when musicians demanding President Nicolas Maduro allow in humanitarian aid and those supporting his refusal sing in rival concerts being held at both sides of a border bridge where tons of donated food and medicine are stored.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

(The Associated Press) Youths wearing white T-shirts and Venezuelan flags hike through an unmarked trail between high bushes to sneak into Colombia, for the "Venezuela Aid Live" concert on the Colombian side of the border, in Palotal, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Venezuela's power struggle is set to become a battle of the bands Friday when musicians demanding President Nicolas Maduro allow in humanitarian aid and those supporting his refusal sing in rival concerts being held at both sides of a border bridge where tons of donated food and medicine are stored.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)…+

By The Associated PressCUCUTA, Colombia — 5m ago

The Latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local):

9:20 a.m.

Venezuela's deputy foreign minister who is visiting Moscow says the embattled Venezuelan president is in persistent contact with Russia's leader.

Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Gil said at a meeting in the upper chamber of the Russian parliament on Friday that President Nicolas Maduro is "constantly in touch" with President Vladimir Putin on the phone. He thanked Russia for a recent shipment of medicine but reiterated the government stance that there is no humanitarian crisis in the South American country.

Russia and China have been staunch backers of Maduro.

Venezuela's government and the opposition are set for a showdown on Saturday as the opposition pledges to draw crowds to the country's western border to try to usher in aid that Maduro has vowed not to accept.

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9:10 a.m.

The U.N. refugee and migration agencies say some 3.4 million people have now fled Venezuela, up from a November estimate of 3 million people.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-rocks-thrown-venezuela-opposition-caravan-61236062

Democrats introduce measure to block Trump’s emergency declaration

By Andrew Taylor The Associated Press

WATCH: Full breakdown of the legal challenges facing Trump's emergency declaration

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WASHINGTON — House Democrats have introduced a resolution to block the national emergency declaration that U.S. President Donald Trump issued to fund his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border.

READ MORE: San Diego border wall construction begins, replacing up to 22 kilometres of barrier

Friday’s move sets up a fight that could result in Trump’s first-ever veto. It starts the clock on a constitutional clash between Trump and Democrats and sets up a vote by the full House as soon as next week.

WATCH: U.S. lawmakers warn Trump ’emergency’ sets dangerous precedent

The Democratic-controlled House is sure to pass the measure and the GOP-run Senate may adopt it as well despite Trump’s opposition.

Any Trump veto would likely be sustained but the upcoming battle will test Republican support for Trump’s move, which even some of his allies view as a stretch — and a slap at lawmakers’ control over the power of the federal purse.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4987669/house-democrats-trump-national-emergency/

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>>5323969

thank you, just so you know, it's not the first time I've had a man exclaim

"YOU SUCK"

Video from Multiple Angles Shows Horrific Beating of Conservative Man on Berkeley Campus

BY BENJAMIN ARIE

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 2019 AT 4:40PM

MODIFIED FEBRUARY 21, 2019 AT 5:24PM

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The left is reeling over one of the most publicized hate crime hoaxes in years, but a shocking new video suggests that leftists have no problem committing real political violence when it suits them.

On Thursday, Campus Reform shared footage of an attack which took place at the University of California-Berkeley. According to that outlet, a conservative student in a public area of the college was assaulted in the face several times while manning a booth for the young conservative group Turning Point USA.

WARNING: Video contains violence and explicit language.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/video-multiple-angles-shows-horrific-beating-conservative-man-berkeley-campus/?utm_source=push&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_content=2019-02-22&utm_campaign=manualpost

>>5324438

no blind faith, that's why we dig to know the truth. We're not stupid, people are fallible, all of us, that makes us ALL GUILTY… SO STOP SHAMING OTHERS

BE HAPPY