For thirty years, a federal court existed only on paper — a legal instrument forged in the anxieties of 1996, waiting for a moment its architects believed would come. That moment arrived quietly on a Friday in September 2026, when the Justice Department announced the first completed deportation through the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, removing Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan woman from Fort Worth, Texas, to the country she had left behind. The activation of dormant machinery rarely announces itself as a turning point, yet the awakening of a 30-year-old tribunal — however swiftly resol
DOJ Uses Rarely Invoked Alien Terrorist Removal Court to Deport Afghan Woman
An Afghan woman was deported from the United States and permanently barred from re-entry.