Mike Pompeo says ISIS wife from Alabama will not be admitted to the US
“Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States,” Pompeo said in a statement. “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.”
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In the last day or so a young women, who left to join ISIS in 2014 and became an ISIS bride in Syria, has admitted that she realized the error of her ways and wanted to come back to the US. She’s 24 now but was 19 when she left.
But according to Kevin Corke from Fox News, her request has been denied by the State Department:
Breaking NEW: Sec Pompeo on American ISIS Bride:"Ms. #HodaMuthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the U.S. She does not have any legal basis, no valid passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the U.S."
— Kevin Corke (@kevincorke)
For the record, Hoda Muthana is the daughter of Yemeni immigrants. She attended high school and college in the U.S. but is NOT an American.— Kevin Corke (@kevincorke)
Hoda Muthana was not entitled to return because children born in the US to accredited foreign diplomatic officers do NOT acquire #citizenshipunder the 14th Amendment since they are not “born . . . subject to the jurisdiction of the US.” She was the daughter of a diplomat.— Kevin Corke (@kevincorke)
This is what happens when you go join the worst terrorist group on the planet and then say you want to come back. Some decisions just cannot be undone, no matter how sorry she feels for it. And I think rightly so. She could totally be an ISIS sleeper agent, lying just to come back and cause mayhem. No thanks.
Here’s more from Corke on the justification for this decision:
Hoda Muthana possibilities:Section 349 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1481), as amended, states that U.S. nationals are subject to loss of nationality if they perform certain specified acts voluntarily and with the intention to relinquish U.S. nationality including (1/4)
— Kevin Corke (@kevincorke)
Taking an oath, affirmation or other formal declaration of allegiance to a foreign state or its political subdivisions after the age of 18 (Sec. 349 (a) (2) INA);(2/4)
— Kevin Corke (@kevincorke)
Entering or serving in the armed forces of a foreign state engaged in hostilities against the United States or serving as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer in the armed forces of a foreign state (Sec. 349 (a) (3) INA);(3/4)
— Kevin Corke (@kevincorke)
Conviction for an act of treason against the Government of the United States or for attempting by force to overthrow, or bear arms against, the Government of the United States (Sec. 349 (a) (7) INA). (4/4)— Kevin Corke (@kevincorke)
I’m sure the left is going apoplectic about this, and Ilhan Omar will probably be screaming about it later. But so far I haven’t seen anything from her.
Her lawyer, however, isn’t happy about it:
NEW: "The Trump administration continues its attempts to wrongfully strip citizens of their citizenship. Hoda Muthana had a valid US passport and is a citizen. She was born in Hackensack, NJ in October 1994," Hoda Muthana's attorney says— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics)
Yeah good luck with all that. I think she lost all her privileges when she became a terrorist.
Shortly afterward, President Trump said he ordered Pompeo not to admit Muthana.
"I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!" the president tweeted.
I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!
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#NEW #HodaMuthana’s legal rep says her father stopped being diplomat months before Hoda was born in NJ.— Kevin Corke (@kevincorke) February 20, 2019
Hassan Shibly says "The Trump administration continues its attempts to wrongfully strip citizens of their citizenship."
The @StateDept hasn't said why it canceled hers.
An ISIS wife who reportedly told Americans to kill themselves now begging to come home
ReplyDeleteA woman who joined ISIS years ago is now begging for officials to let her back into the U.S. Kurdish forces captured Hoda Muthana, 24, and she is now at a refugee camp.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that an Alabama woman who joined ISIS but now wants to return home with the 18-month-old son she had with her ISIS husband will not be admitted back into the United States, saying she is not a U.S. citizen.
“Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States,” Pompeo said in a statement. “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.”
Shortly afterward, President Trump said he ordered Pompeo not to admit Muthana.
"I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!" the president tweeted.
Muthana, 24, has pleaded with officials to let her back into the U.S. following her recent escape from ISIS and capture by Kurdish forces. She was born in 1994 in Hackensack, New Jersey.
It’s unclear the exact provision the State Department is using to deem Muthana not a citizen.
But it could be because Muthana’s father was a diplomat, something her legal representative, Hassan Shibly, acknowledged Wednesday.
According to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, children born in the United States to accredited foreign diplomatic officers do not acquire citizenship under the 14th Amendment since they are not born subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. at the time.
However, Shibly says Muthana’s father stopped being a diplomat months before Hoda was born in New Jersey.
“The Trump administration continues its attempts to wrongfully strip citizens of their citizenship,” Shibly said. “Hoda Muthana had a valid US passport and is a citizen.”
Muthana is currently being held in a refugee camp in northeast Syria. She told The Guardian in an interview that her last four years with the terrorist group have been a traumatizing experience where “we starved and we literally ate grass."
“I would tell them please forgive me for being so ignorant, and I was really young and ignorant and I was 19 when I decided to leave,” she told the newspaper when asked if she had a message for American officials.
Muthana first made headlines in 2015 after it emerged that she left her family in Birmingham, Alabama to join the bloodthirsty terrorist group.
An attorney representing her parents at the time said Muthana was “brainwashed” over the Internet, according to the Associated Press, and that she went against her family’s wishes and the teachings of Islam by secretly boarding a plane to Turkey in late 2014 to link up with ISIS.
The attorney said it then, but it wasn’t until Sunday -- in her interview with The Guardian -- that Muthana admitted herself that she was “brainwashed” and made a “big mistake.”
“I thought I was doing things correctly for the sake of God,” she said, adding that she was “brainwashed once and my friends are still brainwashed.”
The newspaper says Muthana, during her time with ISIS, lived in their once-stronghold of Raqqa and was married to jihadists from Australia, Tunisia, and Syria – the first two of which have been killed in battle.
In 2015, Muthana reportedly operated a Twitter account and once tried to use it to incite Americans to commit acts of violence amongst themselves on national holidays.
ReplyDelete“Americans wake up! Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping!” she once wrote, according to The Guardian. “Go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriots, Memorial, etc day … Kill them.”
Muthana now has an 18-month-old son from one of her ISIS marriages. In her interview with The Guardian, Muthana also claims her parents were too strict on her in her upbringing, a factor that she says contributed to her decision to defect to ISIS.
“You want to go out with your friends and I didn’t get any of that,” she said. “I turned to my religion and went in too hard. I was self-taught and thought whatever I read, it was right."
Now Muthana is not allowed to leave the camp she is being held at and has to be escorted around by Kurdish fighters, more than 6,500 miles away from the Alabama city she once called home.