Repent: Born in the United States, traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State, Trump does not let her come back

WASHINGTON (AFP) .- Her name is Hoda Muthana. He is 24 years old. She is the daughter of diplomats from Yemen. He was born in New Jersey,

United States,

in 1994 and she was registered – as she says – as a citizen of that country. A few years ago, he went to

Syria

join the ranks of
terrorist group

Islamic State.

But now she is repenting and wants to come back, but the government of

Donald Trump

he does not want to allow it.

In 2014, when she was living with her family in Alabama, Muthana had announced that she was going to Turkey, but she had lied: she had traveled to Syria for training.
jihadist fighter For a time, at the age of 19, accounts were created in social networks to harangue attacks on behalf of Allah in the United States, according to what was published by
the BBC channel.

"Americans wake up, men and women together, they have a lot to do while they live under our biggest enemy, stop sleeping, get in vehicles and run off all their blood, or rent a big truck and hit them ", was one of the messages published by then.

As Muthana was born in the United States, she would be entitled to citizenship. However, because of his father's work, he could be in an exceptional situation: the law indicates that the children of diplomats were born under the jurisdiction of the country of their parents. She says that at the time of her birth, her father was no longer working for the UN. The republican government does not believe it.

During her stay in Syria, Muthana (whose name was Umm Jihad) was married to three militiamen and with one of them, she had a baby now one and a half years old. For him and also for her, it's that he wants to come back. "I hope that in the United States, they do not think I'm a threat to them and hope that they'll be able to accept me," said the woman, who insists that his group was cleansed.

"It would be very difficult for me to express correctly how much I regret my words from the past, the pain that I have caused to my family and all the concerns that I have caused to my country" , he said in a note to his lawyer.

Trump's position

The President of the United States said Wednesday that he had ordered to prevent his return to the country arguing that he was not American. Trump said on Twitter that he had asked state secretary Mike Pompeo to "not authorize the return of Hoda Muthana to the country", thus violating the US protocol banning any comments on issues. of particular immigration.

"Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a citizen of the United States and will not be admitted to the US She has no legal basis, no valid US pbadport, no pbadport or visa to travel to the United States. United States, "he said before. Pompeo, despite the woman's lawyer, said that he had gone to Syria with an American document.

"She is a US citizen and has a valid pbadport, she may have broken the law and is willing to pay the price," said lawyer Hbadan Shilby. is found guilty. Shilby also showed a birth certificate stating that her client was born in New Jersey in 1994 and stated that her father had ceased to be a diplomat "months and months" before his birth. nationality

"We can not reach a point where we are simply removing citizenship from those who break the law, it's not what it's all about in the US, we have one of the best legal systems of the world and we must respect it, "added the lawyer.

Muthana's claim and the Republican's refusal come in a tense climate with Europe, after Trump urged his allies on Sunday to repatriate and prosecute their hundreds of citizens detained in Syria. The case is likely to be brought to justice because it is very difficult to lose American citizenship.