Scientist with green card facing deportation as legal questions raised

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : If deported to Russia, Petrova could face persecution for her past criticism of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine -- comments that would likely fall afoul of sweeping censorship laws enacted shortly after the invasion began.
46% : " When Trump took office for a second term on January 20, he pledged to deport "millions" of immigrants.
45% : But Petrova's attorney, Gregory Romanovsky, said customs experts have confirmed that his client did not need a permit to bring "her non-living scientific samples that are not considered biological material under U.S. Customs law" into the U.S. "Yesterday's hearing in federal district court in Vermont confirmed that Customs and Border Patrol officials had no legal basis for cancelling Kseniia's visa and detaining her on Feb. 16," the attorney said in a statement shared with Newsweek.
42% : Three months ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended her at Boston Logan International Airport for allegedly failing to properly declare frog embryo samples she had brought from Paris at the request of her chief scientist.
37% : Romanovsky said less than two hours after a judge set a hearing on Petrova's release, she was suddenly transferred from ICE to criminal custody.
28% : Just hours before the Trump administration announced criminal smuggling charges against her, a government lawyer told a judge that the administration intends to deport Petrova to Russia -- a country she fled in 2022 -- despite her fear of political persecution, The New York Times reported.

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