Ward Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian woman, faced a second deportation attempt by the US government despite a judge's order preventing her removal. Detained since February, her government officials attempted deportation without revealing her destination. Sakeik, born in Saudi Arabia to a family from Gaza, has been under a deportation order since age nine and applied for asylum. She was recently married and applied for a green card. A US district judge issued an order barring her deportation, but government officials have repeatedly ignored it.
Sakeik's family is from Gaza, but she was born in Saudi Arabia, which does not grant birthright citizenship to the children of foreigners. She and her family came to the US on a tourist visa when she was eight and applied for asylum but were denied.
After her lawyers filed suit on behalf, US district judge Ed Kinkeade issued an order on 22 June barring the government from deporting Sakeik or removing her from the Texas district where she is being detained.
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