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‘Alien terrorist’ court sat dormant for 30 years. Now it could be used to deport an alleged ISIS sympathizer
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The Trump administration tried Thursday to deport an Afghan national living legally in Texas through a secretive court never before used since its creation 30 years ago.
The Justice Department told a judge in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court that 47-year-old Nazira Haji Zada should be expelled from the U.S. because she is a supporter of the Islamic State.
Created in 1996, the little-known court provides a mechanism for the government to quickly deport noncitizens suspected of ties to terrorism.
An FBI memo dated July 15 and released by the Justice Department said Zada “has formally pledged loyalty to ISIS” and had “worked to indoctrinate her children with ISIS ideology.”
He said Congress created the court to deport “alien terrorists who never should have been here in the first place.”