Tens of thousands of mourners vowed support for Hezbollah at the Beirut funeral of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah on Feb. 23, 2025. (Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images)
Alawieh was questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and allegedly told federal agents she had attended the funeral of Nasrallah, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Sady reportedly wrote in a new filing Monday.
The filing has since been placed under seal, but Politico and The Providence Journal were able to report its contents beforehand.
Alawieh allegedly stated she supported Nasrallah "from a religious perspective," but not politically, according to Politico.
Federal authorities said they also conducted a search of Alawieh's phone and found "sympathetic photos and videos" of Hezbollah leaders, as well as materials showing "various other Hezbollah militants" in a deleted folder.
"With the discovery of these photographs and videos, CBP questioned Dr. Alawieh and determined that her true intentions in the United States could not be determined," DOJ lawyers wrote, according to the Journal. "As such, CBP canceled her visa and deemed Dr. Alawieh inadmissible to the United States."
Mourners attend the funeral of slain Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine on the outskirts of Beirut on Feb. 23, 2025. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Her cousin, Yara Chehab, attempted to intervene in court last week while Alawieh had been detained at the airport for over 36 hours. Her federal lawsuit says Brown Medicine sponsored Alawieh for an H-1B visa to do the work of an assistant professor.
Alawieh was issued an H-1B visa on March 11 to pursue an assistant professor of medicine and clinician educator role at Brown University. The lawsuit says she worked for Brown prior to the issuance of her current H-1B visa.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Brown University, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, the Justice Department and Chehab's attorney but did not immediately hear back.
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