The circumstances under which Laith W. Alebbini was allowed to enter the United States in the first place need to be closely examined. Was he examined for pro-jihad sympathies? He almost certainly wasn’t; to have done so would have been “Islamophobic.”
“Dayton man convicted of trying to join ISIS sentenced to 15 years,” by Mark Gokavi, Dayton Daily News, June 13, 2019:
DAYTON — The man convicted in the first terrorism-related trial in the Southern District of Ohio was sentenced to 15 years in prison, a judge ruled Thursday.
Laith W. Alebbini, 28, was found guilty last year by U.S. District Court Judge Walter Rice, who held a bench trial in Dayton’s U.S. District Court.
Alebbini had been indicted for conspiracy and knowingly attempting “to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization in the form of personnel to work under ISIS’s direction and control.”…
The judge said Alebbini earned about 26 months of jail-time credit and will be on supervised release for 25 years, but he expects Alebbini to be deported after his sentence.