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The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Attorneys for a woman who left her Alabama home to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group will continue to fight for her and her young son even though the Supreme Court declined to consider his demand for reentry to the United States, one of his lawyers reported Wednesday.
Hoda Muthana and her 4-year-old son, who is the son of a man she met while she was with the extremist group, have been living in a Syrian refugee camp almost since the boy was born, and
now it is unclear what steps they will take
. to argue his re-entry into the United States, said Christina Jump, a representative of Muthana's family.
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However, Jump, who works with the Center for Constitutional Law for Muslims in America, noted that lawyers are evaluating options.
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“We intend to support Hoda and her son and their rights to citizenship.
We intend to continue working on their behalf, ”he stated.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from a lawsuit filed by family members on behalf of Muthana, who was born in New Jersey and fled her home in suburban Birmingham in 2014 to join the Islamic State, apparently after going radical. via Internet.
Undated photo provided by attorney Hassan Shably depicting Hoda Muthana, who was born in 1994 in New Jersey and raised in Alabama. Hoda Muthana / AP
She later decided that she wanted to return to the United States, but the government determined that she was not a US citizen and revoked her passport while abroad, blocking her return.
The Administration cited her father's status as a Yemeni diplomat at the time she was born in 1994.
Although the Supreme Court declined to consider overturning lower court rulings that said Muthana could be kept out of the country, Camp said he continues to believe that
“the State Department has no authority to revoke the citizenship of the the way it was done with Mrs. Muthana ”
.
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Both relatives and lawyers have difficulty maintaining regular contact with Muthana because she is not allowed to have her own mobile phone in the camp where she lives and the internet service is spotty, according to the lawyer.
Muthana has resigned from ISIS and both she and her son have been threatened for her stance, according to Camp.
The boy's father is dead.
The decision to revoke his passport was made under former President Barack Obama.
The case gained a lot of attention because former President Donald Trump tweeted about it, saying that he had ordered the secretary of state not to allow him to return to the country.