DOJ given 6 days to decide on fate of student’s visa

A Sudanese doctor who works at the famed Cleveland Clinic claims she was illegally detained and deported from JFK Airport after President Trump signed his anti-terror travel ban, according to court papers made public Wednesday.Dr. Suha Abushamma, who’s...

DOJ given 6 days to decide on fate of student’s visa

A Sudanese doctor who works at the famed Cleveland Clinic claims she was illegally detained and deported from JFK Airport after President Trump signed his anti-terror travel ban, according to court papers made public Wednesday.

Dr. Suha Abushamma, who’s in her first year of a three-year medical residency program, says she was held at JFK for nine hours on Friday while en route to Cleveland following a visit with her family in Saudi Arabia.

Customs agents tricked Abushamma, 26, into signing a document that cancelled her visa by threatening that she otherwise “would be forcibly removed from the United States and banned from re-entry for five years,” according to a suit filed on her behalf in Brooklyn federal court.

Abushamma was allegedly put on a plane that took off for Saudi Arabia “just before 9 p.m.,” about 15 minutes after a kaçak bahis siteleri federal judge barred the feds from deporting any travelers covered by the executive order Trump signed on Friday.

Her suit seeks reinstatement of her visa, an immediate flight back to JFK and admission to the U.S.

Brooklyn federal Judge Carol Bagley Amon gave the Justice Department until Tuesday to respond to Abushamma’s suit, and scheduled a Feb. 15 hearing in the case.

Trump’s order prohibited citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries, including Sudan, from entering the U.S. for at least 90 days, with Syrians banned indefinitely.

But the order allows the feds to grant waivers “on a case-by-case basis, and when in the national interest,” and 1,607 green-card holders and 81 visa holders had been admitted as of 7 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Customs and Border Protection Web site.

The Justice Department didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Our editors found this article on this site using Google and regenerated it for our readers.

NEXT NEWS