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Last week, you heard about the work our team is doing to support so many non-citizens targeted for the identities they hold and the viewpoints they express. I wanted to take a minute out of this momentous stretch for Muslim Advocates to share another update: a few days ago we launched two new high-profile legal efforts that your investment has made possible.
We are lead counsel [[link removed]] for Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese transplant nephrologist and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University Medical Center, whom border agents at Boston Logan International Airport unlawfully subjected to expedited removal when she sought to reenter the U.S. after brief travel abroad. The Boston Globe [[link removed]] covered the legal arguments her case presents. As one of only three transplant nephrologists in the state, Dr. Alawieh is urgently needed back at her job, to resume providing life-saving care. She has the support [[link removed]] of the Committee of Interns and Residents, the largest union of medical house-staff in the U.S., with over 40,000 members.
We are also defending Leqaa Kordia in her challenges to immigration confinement [[link removed]] and removal, as part of a team that includes the CLEAR project, Professor Fatma Marouf of the Texas A&M School of Law, the Texas Civil Rights Project, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel. Ms. Kordia is a Palestinian national who lives in New Jersey. She exercised her right to free speech and expression by protesting for Palestinian lives and freedom, where genocide has claimed over 100 members of her family. Media outlets [[link removed]] have been covering the case, in part, because Ms. Kordia was the second non-citizen whom immigration agents took into custody because of involvement in protests for Palestinian lives. Agents surveilled her, arrested her, and swiftly and cruelly transferred her to a facility in Texas over 1,500 miles away from her family and community; she’s been enduring confinement there for over two months and counting, under brutal conditions, including religious deprivations that have caused her to lose approximately 30% of her body-weight.
Your continued support allows us to demand justice, inside and outside the courtroom, for clients and community members like Leqaa Kordia and Dr. Alawieh.
We’re grateful that we can count you as part of our shared struggle for a more just tomorrow.
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