US District Court Judge Sorokin wants to know why immigration officials sent a R.I. Hospital kidney doctor to Lebanon after he ordered that she not be moved without 48 hours' notice.

A Rhode Island doctor who is an assistant professor at Brown University's medical school has been deported to Lebanon even though a judge had issued an order blocking the U.S. visa holder's immediate removal from the country,

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who was in the U.S. on a valid H1-B visa, has been deported back to Lebanon and unable to make contact with her lawyer.