US-born woman who joined IS not a citizen: Court
In a surprise ruling from the bench, the judge, Reggie Walton of the US district court for Columbia, abruptly dismissed a lawsuit brought by her family seeking to force the Trump administration to bring her home from a refugee camp in Syria, along with her 2-year-old son — the child of a slain Islamic State fighter. The ruling leaves the fate of Muthana and her child in doubt amid the deteriorating security environment in Syria[1] since Turkey[2] invaded territory held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
Muthana’s case has been politically charged since President Trump said in a Twitter post in February that he had directed the secretary of state “not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!” Muthana’s father, Ahmed Ali Muthana, was a UN diplomat from Yemen[3].
Children of people with diplomatic immunity[4] are not automatically granted citizenship despite being born in the US. But Ahmed Muthana was discharged from his diplomatic post shortly before she was born in 1994. The US, however, said it was notified about that change in early 1995, after she was born, and stopped considering him covered by diplomatic immunity only then. The gap raised the question of whether his diplomatic status expired as a matter of law before or after her birth. One of the lawyers representing the Muthanas said that they would probably appeal against the ruling.
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