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   From: bankrupt-liars-and-damned-near-out-of-business@nytimes.com   
      
   “ISIS bride” Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen — and America is   
   under no obligation to let her back into the country, a federal   
   judge ruled Thursday.   
      
   Judge Reggie Walton found there was enough evidence to prove   
   Muthana — the US-born mom who fled her home in Alabama to join   
   the terror group in Syria in 2014 but has been begging to come   
   back to the US — was born while her father was a Yemeni   
   diplomat, BuzzFeed News reported.   
      
   The judge said Muthana’s father, Ahmed Ali Muthana, can’t   
   provide financial support to either her or her 2-year-old son,   
   Adam, who was born in ISIS territory, without facing potential   
   charges of providing material support to terrorism.   
      
   Christina Jump, one of the lawyers representing the Muthana   
   family, confirmed the judge’s ruling in a statement obtained by   
   The Post.   
      
   “While we are disappointed with and disagree with the Court’s   
   ruling today, this is not the end of our client’s legal options.   
   We will wait to read the Court’s written opinion, and will   
   evaluate our available options at that time,” Jump said.   
      
   Ahmed claimed in a lawsuit against the Trump administration that   
   he surrendered his diplomatic status on June 2, 1994, months   
   before his daughter was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. Her   
   family said Hoda also had a legitimate passport when she left   
   the US to join ISIS.   
      
   The Obama administration initially determined she was not a   
   citizen and notified her family that it was revoking her   
   passport in January 2016.   
      
   Babies born in the US are typically granted citizenship, but   
   those born to foreign diplomatic officers are exceptions, under   
   the Immigration and Nationality Act.   
      
   In previous interviews, Hoda, 25, has claimed she’s a “changed”   
   woman who no longer holds the same ideology as ISIS followers.   
      
   “I hope America doesn’t think I’m a threat to them and I hope   
   they can accept me,” she said in February, speaking from a   
   refugee camp in northern Syria.   
      
   She’s also claimed that she was “brainwashed” by ISIS.   
      
   After joining ISIS at the age of 19, Hoda — who has been married   
   to at least two ISIS fighters who died, one of whom was the   
   father of her only child — called for attacks on Americans.   
      
   “Americans wake up. … Go on drive-bys and spill all of their   
   blood. … Veterans, patriots,” she wrote in one 2015 tweet.   
      
   Hoda’s highly publicized about-face begging to return to the US   
   prompted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to issue a statement in   
   February saying she wouldn’t be let back in the country.   
      
   “Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted   
   into the United States. She does not have any legal basis, no   
   valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to   
   travel to the United States. We continue to strongly advise all   
   U.S. citizens not to travel to Syria,” he said in the statement.   
      
   President Trump also weighed in on the diplomatic debacle.   
      
   “I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully   
   agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!” he   
   wrote.   
      
   Jump’s statement noted that the judge’s ruling was only “based   
   on his interpretation of when diplomatic immunity ends.”   
      
   “The Court did not base its ruling on a tweet by the President,   
   or by any supposed proclamation made by any official,” she said.   
   “United States citizenship cannot be revoked by tweet or any   
   other form of social media, and today’s ruling does not change   
   that.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2019/11/14/judge-rules-isis-bride-hoda-   
   muthana-is-not-a-us-citizen/   
        
      
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