The White House on Monday (local time) took to social media to troll a recently deported doctor, as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigrations.
In a post on X, the White house responded to Homeland Security’s post revealing that Dr Rasha Alawieh, doctor who was deported despite having a valid visa and a court order blocking the deportation, sympathised with Hamas and claimed that she went to the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. ” Last month, Rasha Alawieh traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah— a brutal terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree.” Responding to the post, White House replied with an image of Trump waiving from the time he worked at McDonald’s during his election campaign.
The memes around Trump and McDonald’s started in October last year during the election campaigning, when Trump made a stop at the Philadelphia franchise. During his visit Trump tried his hands making french fries. He took that moment to take jibe at his Democrat rival, then vice president Kamala Harris saying, “I like every ounce of it. Everything. But I do like the french fries where I’ll be working. I listened to Kamala. She said it was so hot. It was so hot. It was such a tough job. But then you have a man that’s been doing it for many years at the french fries, right?” “I’ve now worked 15 minutes more than Kamala at a McDonald’s” he added at the time. Trump also handed out food to customers through the drive-thru window.
Who is Dr Rasha Alawieh that the White House took jab at?
Dr Rasha Alawieh is a 34-year-old physician and assistant professor specializing in kidney transplantation at Brown Medicine in Rhode Island. She has been working in the Division of Kidney Disease & Hypertension since July 2024
Dr Alawieh holds a medical degree from the American University of Beirut (2015) and completed her residency there in 2018. Since arriving in the US on a J-1 visa in 2018, she trained at Ohio State University, the University of Washington, and Yale Waterbury Internal Medicine Program before joining Brown Medicine.
She held a valid H-1B visa, issued by the American consulate in Lebanon, allowing her to work in the United States until mid-2027. Despite this, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detained and deported her to Paris while she was returning from a two-week family visit to Lebanon. This action occurred even after a federal judge issued an order temporarily halting her deportation.
Legal representatives and colleagues argue that CBP’s actions disregarded judicial authority. The case has sparked significant concern, with US District Judge Leo Sorokin expressing alarm over CBP’s apparent defiance of his court order.
