Law Dork: The first deportation of the constitutionally suspect Alien Terrorist Removal Court happened weeks ago, following a secret plea deal
Chris Geidner for Law Dork reports on
"the first deportation carried out through use of a secretive pre-9/11 court that had never been used until this summer. . . .
The Justice Department used the secretive, constitutionally suspect, never-before-used Alien Terrorist Removal Court to deport a woman who ultimately agreed to leave the U.S. before a hearing — resulting an an agreed motion to enter an agreed order of removal. In other words, a plea deal."
On September 11, the Department of Justice released “Department of Justice Removes Alien Terrorist in First Use of United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court.“ The press release begins:
"In the first-ever case before the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), Nazira Haji Zada, 47, an Afghan national previously residing in Fort Worth, Texas, was removed from the United States after conceding that she is an alien terrorist. As the matriarch in her family, she supported a plot to commit an ISIS-inspired mass shooting on Election Day in 2024 for which her son, Abdullah Haji Zada, and son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, were previously arrested and convicted. The ATRC issued an order of removal on Aug. 20 that was unsealed earlier today following her return to her country of origin. This was the first case ever brought before the ATRC, which Congress established decades ago, and which no previous administration had used. Zada is now permanently inadmissible to the United States."
