BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group, but then decided she wanted to return to the United States.
The justices declined without comment on Monday to consider the appeal of Hoda Muthana, who was born in New Jersey in October 1994 to a diplomat from Yemen and grew up in Alabama near Birmingham.
Muthana left the U.S. to join the Islamic State in 2014, apparently after becoming radicalized online.
While she was overseas the government determined she was not a U.S. citizen and revoked her passport, citing her father’s status as a diplomat at the time of her birth. Her family sued to enable her return to the United States.
A federal judge ruled in 2019 that the U.S. government correctly determined Muthana wasn’t a U.S. citizen despite her birth in the country. Children of diplomats aren’t entitled to birthright citizenship. The family’s lawyers appealed, arguing that her father’s status as a diplomat assigned to the U.N. had ended before her birth, making her automatically a citizen.
Muthana surrendered to U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces as Islamic State fighters were losing the last of their self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria and going to refugee camps.
Muthana said she regretted her decision to join the group and wanted to return to the U.S. with her toddler child, the son of a man she met while living with the group. The man later died.
Her current whereabouts aren’t clear. Family attorney Christina Jump of the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America did not immediately return an email seeking comment Tuesday.
The decision to revoke her passport was made under former President Barack Obama. The case gained widespread attention as former President Donald Trump tweeted about it, saying he had directed the secretary of state not to allow her back into the country.
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Maybe we should legally designate the illegal parents of anchor babies as unauthorized Foreign guest Diplomats, since they are representatives of foreign nations and their miscreant lawbreaking cultures, to make it much easier to deport their anchor children when they misbehave., If joining with Drug smuggling terrorist to load up thier kids with suggling drugs like phentynal, are they not guilty of associating and doing business with terrorists?
HOWS about find and DEPORT HER Traitorous butt.
You can’t serve two masters.
Good bet she’s in America and being taken care of by US taxpayers. Sometimes justice is served.
You can bet your last dollar, WE ARE PAYING FOR HER somewhere in this nation.
Remember Obama has no proof of birth in this country and his mother had been out of country too long for him to become a US citizen automatically. Had she registered his birth or applied for citizenship for him it would have been different. The only proof, as it were, of his birth here has been counterfeit copies of certificate of live birth which if they had been real would have shown he was presented by someone claiming to be his mother and claiming that he had been born in the past few days on United States territory. It is, or was, legal proof in Hawaii at that time. However, there has, to this date, been nothing genuine presented. Furthermore no application has been issued granting him citizenship. There is much more, but basically Obama can not prove he ever was a legal US citizen. Ask yourself this: If there was an actual certificate of live birth, why would counterfeit copies have been presented?
BECAUSE they don’t care about proof.