For the first time in three decades, the United States has invoked a secretive 1996 tribunal to remove a permanent resident from its soil — not for a crime she was charged with, but for the company she kept and the beliefs she allegedly nurtured. Nazira Haji Zada, an Afghan woman living in Texas, chose deportation over a legal fight she could not fully see, surrendering her American life after the Justice Department designated her an alien terrorist based on classified evidence her own attorneys were never permitted to share with her. Her case arrives on the anniversary of September 11th, and
Afghan woman deported in DOJ's first 'alien terrorist' removal court case
Nazira Haji Zada, a permanent resident, was deported to Afghanistan after being designated an alien terrorist without access to classified evidence against her.