Judge Rules That U.S.-Born Woman Who Joined ISIS Is Not A U.S. Citizen
Hoda Muthana, a 25-year-old who was a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham when she traveled to Syria, is currently imprisoned at a detention camp in northern Syria with her young son.
by Merrit Kennedy
Nov 15, 2019
3 minutes
A federal judge has ruled that a U.S.-born woman who traveled to Syria and joined ISIS is not an American citizen, even though the State Department had issued her a passport when she was a child and later renewed it.
Hoda Muthana, 25, was a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham when she traveled to Syria. She is currently being held at a detention camp in northern Syria with her young son.
In February, the State Department declared that Muthana "is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States." The
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