For the first time in thirty years, a court designed to operate in shadow has been used to remove a person from the country she called home. Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan permanent resident in Texas, was deported after the Justice Department designated her an alien terrorist — a label she could not fully contest because the evidence behind it was sealed from her view. Her case inaugurates the Alien Terrorist Removal Court as a living instrument of policy, and in doing so, reopens an enduring question: how much due process a nation owes to those who have made their lives within its bor
Afghan permanent resident deported as first 'alien terrorist' case in secretive court
Nazira Haji Zada was deported to Afghanistan, losing her permanent resident status and separation from family members remaining in the United States.