Susanna Dvortsin, the attorney trying to prevent the family of Mohamed Soliman — the illegal alien charged with setting Jewish demonstrators on fire in Boulder, CO — from being deported, has an integrity problem.
In 2019, Dvortsin was suspended from practicing law for “misconduct concerning an immigration matter.”
The suspension, lasting 115 days, was requested by the Supreme Court of South Dakota and approved by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review.
An order, dated March 5, 2019, specified Dvortsin was suspended from practice before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Board of Immigration Appeals, immigration courts, and the state of South Dakota. She was ordered to notify in writing any clients with cases pending before these bodies about her suspension.
It was not her first misstep.
In 2008, Dvortsin was in court on her own behalf, appealing the DHS decision to fire her from a job she held for a short time in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
According to an order denying her appeal, Dvortsin lied on a May 2, 2006 form required for national security positions, the Standard Form 86 (SF-86).
She was hired in June 2006 as an asylum officer in the Los Angeles Asylum Office, and worked for almost a year. But days before her one-year probationary period ended in June 2007, she was fired because of missing, relevant information on the SF-86.
According to the order, Dvortsin failed to disclose that her daughter’s father was an illegal alien. She also failed to disclose that she had been prescribed psychiatric medication over the previous seven years. The form was also missing credit information, and she failed to list foreign trips she had made.
Dvortsin argued that she was fired for “marital status discrimination.”
An administrative judge said her termination was not about her relationship with her daughter’s father, but that she failed to disclose his immigration status, court papers show.
Dvortsin’s “relationship with a foreign national in the U.S. illegally is not consistent with her continued employment with the [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services],” the appeal decision said.
Dvortsin represents illegal alien Hayam El Gamal, the wife of accused terrorist and illegal alien Mohamed Soliman. She is also representing their five minor children, all of whom are Egyptian citizens, DHS says.
DHS detained El Gamal and the children and planned to deport them, until Dvortsin brought it to court. A judge has paused their deportation until June 13.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
