U.S. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Wednesday, February 20, stated that the Progress Mutan, who went to Syria in 2014 to join the «Islamic state» will not receive permission to return to America.
«Miss Stroke Mutan — not a U.S. citizen and not return to America, — the statement says Pompeo. — She has no legal grounds for this, no current US passport, no passport or visa to enter the United States. We continue to urge all U.S. citizens not to travel to Syria.»
BREAKING: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prevents #ISIS Bride Hoda Kader from returning to America. pic.twitter.com/qO6zxiJTwz
— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) February 20, 2019
However, Hassan Shibley, the lawyer Moves Mutan, who grew up in Alabama in 2014 went to Syria to support ISIL, and is now in the refugee camp, insists that his client is a United States citizen. Previously, 24-year-old Speed stated that her decision to join the LIH was a mistake and that she was «very sorry» about it.
«Progress is born in the United States. The state Department is wrong,» said the lawyer, adding that Speed was born in 1994 in Hackensack (new Jersey).
Trump vows to keep ISIS bride Hoda Kader out of the country https://t.co/UXaehAtNP7 pic.twitter.com/sFRgkIUNXM
— New York Post (@nypost) February 20, 2019
According to Hassan Shibley, the authorities refuse to recognize his client a US citizen on the grounds that her father was a diplomat, and the children of diplomats, even if born in the United States, are not citizens of this country. However, Stroke was born a few months after her father resigned from the diplomatic authority, said the lawyer, and she has a valid us passport.
In 2015, the girl’s father told Buzzfeed that he and his wife moved from Yemen to the US in 1992, all their 5 children were born here and all their family members are US citizens.
Anyway, the point of this story is not yet delivered.
