Judge denies fast-track case for woman seeking to return to the U.S. after defecting from ISIS
Source: Politico
A federal judge on Monday denied a request to fast track the case of a woman seeking to return to the United States after defecting from ISIS.
But the judge did not immediately rule on the U.S. citizenship of Hoda Muthana, whom President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called a foreign terrorist and inegible to return to the United states.
Muthana, who was born to a former Yemeni diplomat in the U.S., is currently held in a refugee camp held by Syrian rebels after fleeing from ISIS, which she joined at 19. Lawyers working on her behalf say she has expressed remorse and wants to come home.
But both Trump and Pompeo argue she is not a citizen because her father enjoyed diplomatic immunity when she was born, barring her from territorial birthright citizenship. Her family’s lawyers argue she was been granted a U.S. passport twice and though the U.S. government had not received notice that her father was no longer a diplomat at the time of her birth, he was fired by the Yemeni mission more than a month before Muthana was born.
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