Dallas Muslim Leader to Be Deported After Judge Cites Hamas Support — Hamas-Linked CAIR Rushes In
North Texas Muslim leader Marwan Marouf — longtime PR and fundraising director for the Muslim American Society (MAS) in Dallas — will be deported after an immigration judge cited evidence tying him to Hamas-linked activity.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Marouf overstayed his visa and was denied legal residency because of involvement with a foundation that “provided material support for Hamas.” Judge Abdias Tida also cited Marouf’s donations to the Holy Land Foundation, the Hamas fundraising arm that was shut down after 9/11, and ruled that the “gravity of the evidence” made him ineligible for voluntary departure.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded by noting this case as “another example of CAIR Texas’s support for Hamas and terror,” consistent with his recent designation of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations. CAIR, as usual, denied everything and claimed victimhood, filing a lawsuit and insisting that criticism of CAIR amounts to bigotry.
Marouf’s lawyers declined to appeal; he will be deported to Jordan within two weeks.
Once again, CAIR is defending someone tied to Hamas-linked organizations — and once again, media outlets quoting CAIR never mention its own documented record, including the FBI’s cutting of ties with CAIR in 2008 over the same concerns.
Dallas Muslim leader will be deported, judge cites allegations he supported terrorism
bKERA, November 20, 2025:
North Texas Muslim community leader Marwan Marouf will be removed from the U.S. after an immigration judge on Thursday denied his request for voluntary departure.
In denying his request, Judge Abdias E. Tida cited donations Marouf made to the Holy Land Foundation, a nonprofit in the U.S. that was designated a terrorist organization by DHS following the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
The request for voluntary departure comes as attorneys for Marouf say he is facing immediate health risks….
Marouf, a longtime public relations and fundraising director for the Muslim-American Society in Dallas, has been in ICE custody since September.
He was initially charged with overstaying his visa. But in recent weeks, the Department of Homeland Security charged Marouf with soliciting funds for a terrorist organization.
During Thursday’s hearing, attorneys for Marouf asked Judge Abdias E. Tida to allow him to receive post-conclusion voluntary departure instead of a standard removal order.
This would have allowed Marouf to remain in the U.S. up to 60 days following his release from custody and reapply for lawful entry back into the U.S. from Jordan, where he maintains citizenship. Attorneys say it would also allow for Marouf to address his cardiac condition Brugada syndrome sooner.
But Tida did not grant Marouf voluntary departure, finding Marouf both ineligible under federal law and that he did not merit of such relief as a matter of discretion….
President Trump says he’ll ‘permanently pause migration’ from all ‘Third World Countries’
President Trump said late Thursday that he intends to “permanently pause” migration from all “Third World Countries,” to allow the US to “fully recover” in a Thanksgiving Truth Social post.
“Even as we have progressed technologically, Immigration Policy has eroded those gains and living conditions for many,” Trump wrote late Thursday night.
“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States,” he added.
Trump also said he intends to end all federal benefits and subsidies for “noncitizens.”
He will additionally “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization,” he wrote in the long post.
“Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!” the post said.
Trump’s comments came following a deadly ambush on two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday, which investigators say was carried out by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Lakanwal, 29, entered the US in 2021 from Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Biden administration’s withdrawal as part of the “Operation Allies Welcome” program.
The alleged gunman served in the elite NDS-03 counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan, one of at least five paramilitary “Zero Units” that worked with the CIA, according to the group AfghanEvac, a nonprofit run by American veterans helping resettle Afghan allies in the US, but not Lakanwal.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed Lakanwal worked with the intelligence agency. His service to the US helped him get admittance.
Lakanwal had applied for asylum in December 2024 and later got approval under the Trump administration in April of this year.
Follow the latest on the National Guard shooting in Washington, DC:
- Sarah Beckstrom, one of the National Guardsmen shot by crazed Afghan refugee, dies at 20: ‘Looking down at us’
- Two National Guard troops shot near White House in suspected terror attack, alleged gunman in custody
- DC terror suspect will have charges upgraded to murder: Pirro
- Top Trump intel official reveals DC terror suspect wasn’t vetted for entry to US
- Afghan terror suspect ‘disappeared’ roughly 2 weeks before ambushing National Guard troops in DC, neighbor says
In the 24 hours since the shooting — which killed West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and left Guardsman Andrew Wolfe, 24, critically wounded — the Trump administration has pursued radical, sweeping immigration provisions. There will be a “full-scale, rigorous reexamination” of every green card holder from countries “of concern” in response to Wednesday’s shooting, US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow claimed on X.
Edlow wrote that Trump had requested the gargantuan review, which is expected to encompass green card holders from at least 19 countries.
The Trump administration also announced on Wednesday that it was immediately suspending “processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals” indefinitely pending review of vetting protocols.
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