Brown Medicine professor and doctor deported to Lebanon despite valid visa
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First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out -
because I was not an immigrant.
“Machado said he was uncuffed and immediately released after showing his driver’s license.”
Seems like they treated him appropriately as soon as they verified his identity.
It's hard to tell, it doesn't look as massive as say the women's march.
A majority, yes seriously a majority, of people under the age of 40 get their "news" from TikTok and social media.
"It doesn't make the news" is kind of meaningless nowadays.
This is the part that concerns me.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
The rules:
> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
The word "probably" is probably being ignored. It is a novel situation (which is also referenced in the rules) that the government is ignoring court orders, multiple court orders, and it is going to effect the vast majority of people on this forum, eventually.
The alternate hypothesis is that regular members are flagging political articles because they're tired of the huge upswing in political articles since January 20.
How are you telling the difference between the two?
Flagging is just a 100x powerful downvote button that is getting abused by folks that want to change the narrative. I don't know what the karma value is for flagging, but it should be raised and flags should come out of a leaky bucket.
> I'd like to see your concrete evidence for that claim.
Please with the language.
> Please with the language.
What do you think is wrong with that language?
And, hanging out on [new] and seeing what gets flagged is not evidence for your claim. It gives you no evidence of who is flagging or why - it only shows you what is getting flagged. That doesn't tell you that MAGA people are doing it, or that they're doing it because it puts something in a bad light. That's just your assumption.
Some of us are just tired of politics here on HN. That doesn't make us MAGA. It doesn't make us Trump supporters. It doesn't mean we support this particular deportation. It just means we don't want to discuss it on HN.
I didn't say you were MAGA, nor did I say that all people flagging are MAGA. I have flagged plenty of stories that were about to or already descended into a toxic mess.
These stories are getting flagged with zero comments, and when unflagged, go on to have interesting conversations.
Flagging is not a solution for seeing stories you are not interested in. Downvoting is.
You know full well that any evidence one is going to have is circumstantial. It is a coy way of saying, "you have no concrete evidence, shutup until you do".
"Assume good faith" is part of the site guidelines, after all.
> Flagging is not a solution for seeing stories you are not interested in. Downvoting is.
For comments. For stories, flagging is all you can do.
Also note that I am not the downvoter of these stories. I just don't think that everyone who does can be lumped into your "MAGA supporting" category.
Tech workers suddenly not wanting to work in the US or entrepreneurs avoiding conferences and such in the US as a result of an increasingly hostile environment is a great way to crater tech companies as a whole.
The site rules explicitly say news articles are not things we should post.
I was an immigrant in the US (J-2) and agree this is an issue, just not one for HN.
Since both articles here and NyTimes are only posting the positive things about the professor, I’ll throw in a possibility. They scanned the professors phone, didn’t like what they saw, and end of story.
Is there any evidence of that?
And what sort of things could they not like, that would be sufficient for this action?
The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon.
When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who is Lebanese, “openly admitted” her support for the leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Homeland Security spokeswoman. Dr. Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/rasha-alawieh-brown-un... (https://archive.is/fraB8)
The article goes on to say that the Department did not say why they thought she had attended this funeral, but seeing it on her phone does seem like an obvious possibility. This is of course independent of the question of whether this should be sufficient to deny re-entry.
Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order (nytimes.com)
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The good news is he eventually got into a school in the Caribbean and today is practicing medicine in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Good luck everyone.
Brown here is being used here to mean Brown University. In what way do you find it amusing.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.