For the first time in its thirty-year existence, a secretive American court designed to remove suspected foreign terrorists was used to deport a lawful permanent resident — a 47-year-old Afghan woman from Texas named Nazira Haji Zada. Never formally charged with a crime, she was accused of concealing a plot inspired by the Islamic State and processed through a legal mechanism that permits the government to act on classified evidence her own attorneys could not examine. Her case sits at the intersection of national security and constitutional fairness, raising a question as old as the republic
US deports Afghan woman in first use of secretive terrorism court
Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old lawful permanent resident, was deported to Afghanistan after being accused of supporting Islamic State.