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   From: Your_Colonel@usa.com   
      
   On 11/19/2019 1:45 AM, Barack O'Cumswallower wrote:   
   > “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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