{"id":22432,"date":"2020-01-27T07:44:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T12:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22432"},"modified":"2020-01-27T07:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T12:44:38","slug":"visas-foreign-nationals-terrorism-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/01\/27\/visas-foreign-nationals-terrorism-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Victims Out of Terrorists to Slander President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/iranian-student-whose-deportation-spurred-dem-outcry-has-family-ties-to-irgc-hezbollah-dhs-official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein<\/a> traveled to Boston\u2019s Logan International Airport seeking admission to the United States, allegedly to study at Northeastern University. Upon arrival, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) promptly took him into custody. He was subsequently denied admission to the United States, subjected to expedited removal and returned to Iran. And rightfully so, since he had a previously undisclosed trip to Iraq, as well as connections to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah, an Islamic terror group supported by the IRGC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal District Court in\nBoston promptly ordered that Hossein\u2019s removal be stayed for 48 hours \u2013 despite\nsignificant questions as to whether federal courts have any authority to review\nadmission determinations by CBP. However, the stay could not be complied with\nbecause CBP received the order only after it had placed Hossein on a return\nflight departing the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hossein\u2019s deportation triggered a\nveritable meltdown among both prominent local politicians and the American\nCivil Liberties Union (ACLU):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Senator Elizabeth Warren promptly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewarren\/status\/1219457019729588224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Firanian-student-whose-deportation-spurred-dem-outcry-has-family-ties-to-irgc-hezbollah-dhs-official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201c&#8221;Shahab Dehghani is an Iranian student with a valid F1 visa, returning to finish his education. CBP already held him overnight. His deportation must be halted, and we must fight the Trump administration&#8217;s xenophobic policies.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>And, Warren, Senator Edward Markey and Representative Ayanna Pressley sent an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/CBP%20Targetting%20of%20Iranian%20Students%20Letter%202020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">angry letter<\/a> demanding to know why CBP had removed Hossein, despite a court order ostensibly granting him a stay of removal.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But, there\u2019s a major problem underlying all of the hyperbole: The political\/<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/08\/15\/aclu-loses-grip-on-reality-and-the-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU<\/a> outrage is <strong><em>entirely<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/13\/the-aclus-radical-anti-ice-campaign-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">manufactured<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First off, the mere possession of\nunexpired visa doesn\u2019t entitle a foreign national to enter the United States. A\nvisa is a permit to board a common carrier, travel to the border and request\nadmission to our country. In essence, it\u2019s the Department of State\u2019s indication\nthat it has conducted preliminary vetting on a person who wants to come to\nAmerica. However, as a matter of law, CBP can still refuse admission to a\nperson with a valid visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, foreigners who have been refused admission to the United States don\u2019t have any legal basis for challenging CBP\u2019s decision. As the Supreme Court noted in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/408\/753\/#tab-opinion-1949855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Kliendienst v. Mandel<\/a><\/em>, \u201cunadmitted, nonresident aliens [have]no constitutional right of entry to this country as a nonimmigrant or otherwise.\u201d As a result, refusals of admission by CBP are generally considered exempt from judicial review. What\u2019s more, with extremely limited exceptions, Section 242(a)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act expressly precludes judicial review of an expedited order of removal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In plain English, that means the federal district court that granted Hossein a stay of removal likely had no authority to do so in the first place. Which, in turn, would have meant that CBP was under no obligation to obey an unlawful order issued by the court. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/10\/18\/public-charge-judicial-activism-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Judicial overreach<\/a> has become a common occurrence in immigration litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why the attempts to paint Hossein as the good guy and CBP as jackbooted fascists? Apparently some Americans are irrevocably committed to portraying President Trump as \u201cIslamophobic\u201d and \u201cracist.\u201d And they\u2019re willing to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/10\/31\/public-charge-media-bias-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ignore the truth<\/a> in order to portray a foreign national with terrorist connections as a hapless victim and defame vigilant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/07\/11\/cbp-the-real-heroes-of-the-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">CBP Officers<\/a> as xenophobic thugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein traveled to Boston\u2019s Logan International Airport seeking admission to the United States, allegedly to study at Northeastern University. Upon arrival, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) promptly took him into custody. He was subsequently denied admission to the United States, subjected to expedited removal and returned to Iran. And rightfully so,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/01\/27\/visas-foreign-nationals-terrorism-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":17240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[98,1524,5864,498],"yst_prominent_words":[7581,7577,7576,2300,2249,5763,1943,7580,7578,6288,7582,2273,3792,7583,2275,7579,1945,1977,1933,2172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22433,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22432\/revisions\/22433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22432"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}