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WTF!!! She Sent Money to Family in #Gaza. #ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports #Hamas.

To keep her in detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to #LeqaaKordia’s remittances to family in #Palestine.

Shawn Musgrave
October 2 2025, 7:00 a.m.

Excerpt: " 'She didn’t always have a lot of money to send, but she sent whatever she could,' wrote one of Kordia’s cousins, who lives in Florida, in another affidavit.
It took weeks for Kordia’s legal team to track down family members who received remittances as far back as 2017. Some were still in Gaza and the West Bank, while others had evacuated to Egypt and Dubai.

" 'In 2022, during one of the aggressions in Gaza, my building was destroyed and we needed money to rebuild,' wrote Kordia’s aunt, who ran a hair salon out of her home in Gaza before fleeing to Cairo. 'My sister was in great need after that incident, so I asked Leqaa for her assistance in sending money,' Kordia’s mother explained.

"After Kordia’s attorneys submitted these sworn statements, ICE attorneys switched arguments, and they barely addressed her wire transfers at a hearing in late August, according to Sarah Sherman-Stokes, one of Kordia’s attorneys.

" 'In the blink of an eye, it became a non-issue,' Sherman-Stokes, a professor at Boston University’s immigrants’ rights clinic, told The Intercept. 'Because it was such a charade from the beginning.' "

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/BbNhi

#ICESucks #USPol #WorldPol #IndefiniteDetention #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #EndTheGenocide

She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.

To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.

The Intercept