Dr. Rasha Alawieh studied and worked on kidney transplant cases in the United States, including in Rhode Island, under the legal protection of a H-1B work visa. That was, until she was deported to her native Lebanon on Friday.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to respond to allegations that it deported a Brown University professor despite being prohibited from doing so.

A federal judge abruptly canceled a court hearing Monday morning for a Brown University assistant professor and doctor who was deported over the weekend from Boston to Lebanon after the judge had ordered immigration officials to give him notice first.