Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, the associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago might be deported for failing to tell US immigration officials that she was convicted in a 1969 terrorist bombing in Israel. Israel jailed Odeh for life for involvement in several bombings that year, including one in which a bomb hidden in a candy box in a supermarket killed two students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was released in a prisoner exchange with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1980, and immigrated to the US from Jordan in 1995. She became a naturalized citizen in 2004 and was arrested in October for failing to mention her conviction in her immigration papers. If she pleads guilty she is likely to be deported.
Palestinian-American Could be Deported from US
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