The Trump administration is testing a secretive, never-before-used deportation court for alleged alien terrorists with a case concerning the Afghan mother of a convicted terrorist. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court will have its first ever hearing Thursday at 11 a.m. ET, court documents made public Wednesday night revealed.
Case Details
The Justice Department is asking the court to deport Nazira Haji Zada, whose son was convicted last year for an ISIS-aligned terrorist plot targeting the 2024 Election, according to the filings. Zada herself has no criminal history, the court filings said. But DOJ described her in an unclassified summary of the case as having “worked to indoctrinate her children with ISIS ideology and have them pledge loyalty to ISIS.”
Thursday’s court proceeding, an initial status hearing that will be held at the federal courthouse in DC, will be public. But many details about the DOJ’s case will be withheld from public view and even from the woman targeted in the proceedings. That highly-limited view that the alleged terrorist will have about the case against her— under procedures set forth in the 1996 law that created the court — has prompted some legal observers to question the court’s constitutionality.
Original reporting: KRDO (Colorado Springs metro) — read the source article.
