We're learning a bit more about why U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials sent a Lebanese doctor who works as a professor at Brown University straight back to her home country, and, well, let's just get right to it: she's apparently a simp for Hezbollah.

The story has been blowing up the past few days in the legacy media, with the left fretting over reports that Dr. Rasha Alawieh was sent back to Lebanon because ... orange man bad. This, of course, comes right on the heels of Syrian-born Algerian citizen Mahmoud Khalil, chief agitator at Columbia University's anti-semitic ragefests, being detained ahead of a planned deportation by the Trump administration.

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The media loves to report these kinds of stories at face value, knowing that going even an inch deep into it will uncover some uncomfortable truths. For example, here's how the New York Times covered the story of Dr. Alawieh:

A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the United States, even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.

That mean old CBP wouldn't let that nice kidney doctor lady into the country! Fascists! Nazis! And they may have ignored a court order, even. Gasp! One thing we should probably get straight right now: the Trump administration is quite clearly always going to prioritize the safety of American citizens over what, in the words of RedState's own Streiff, "some desiccated megalomaniac in a black robe says."

As it turns out, there's a touch more to the story than the New York Times wanted its readers to know, including the fact that the nice kidney doctor lady, upon trying to reenter the United States after a visit to Lebanon, was found to have a phone full of videos and photos of Hezbollah militants. And she had allegedly tried to delete many of those photos and videos.

Documents filed in federal court ahead of the hearing allege that it was the contents of Dr. Rasha Alawieh's cellphone that led to her detention, and ultimate deportation, from Logan Airport in Boston.

Federal authorities say in court documents filed in the deportation case of Alawieh, 34, that custom and border officials found "sympathetic photos and videos" of Hezbollah leaders on her cell phone.

They also found "various other Hezbollah militants" in the deleted photo folder of her cell phone.

Oh, that.

The court documents also reveal the CBP's justification for sending Alawieh on a one-way trip back home:

"With the discovery of these photographs and videos CHP questioned Dr. Alawieh and determined that her true intentions in the United States could not be determined," the documents allege.

"As such CBP canceled her visa and deemed Dr. Alawieh inadmissible to the United States."

So low is the bar for the media these days that the common sense act of preventing a bad actor from entering the United States—or throwing them out on their ear like will hopefully soon happen to Mahmoud Khalil—is portrayed as a betrayal of all that is good and right. 

Hilton Beckham, the assistant commissioner of public affairs for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), had a succinct reply to the outrage:

“Arriving aliens bear the burden of establishing admissibility to the United States. Our CBP officers adhere to strict protocols to identify and stop threats, using rigorous screening, vetting, strong law enforcement partnerships, and keen inspectional skills to keep threats out of the country. CBP is committed to protecting the United States from national security threats.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been making the media rounds this past week with the exact right approach for dealing with the likes of Mahmoud Khalil and Rasha Alawieh — the question isn't why these people are being expelled from the United States, it's why were they ever allowed in?

UPDATE 3/17/25 1:30 p.m. ET: Politico is reporting that Alawieh attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah while in Lebanon.