Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan lawful permanent resident from Fort Worth, Texas, was deported to Afghanistan on September 11, 2026, after becoming the first case heard by the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court established in 1996. She conceded to being an "alien terrorist" and chose deportation rather than continue fighting the charge.
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In the first-ever case before the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), Nazira Haji Zada, 47, an Afghan national previously residing in Fort Worth, Texas, was removed from the United States after conceding that she is an alien terrorist. As the matriarch in her family, she supported a plot to commit an ISIS-inspired mass shooting on Election Day in 2024 for which her son, Abdullah Ha
An Afghan national who was the first-ever case before the federal Alien Terrorist Removal Court has been deported, the Justice Department announced Friday. The big picture: The DOJ win before the previously dormant court could give the administration a path to remove people it links to terrorism while keeping much of its evidence secret, Axios previously reported. Driving the news: Chief Judge Joa
The Justice Department said Friday that Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan lawful permanent resident, was deported to Afghanistan after her case became the first to go before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a special tribunal Congress created in 1996. Haji Zada was arrested at her Fort Worth, Texas, home in July and agreed to stop challenging her removal, avoiding a potentially lengthy test
The Justice Department on Friday noted the removal of an Afghan woman in the first-ever Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC) case, announcing the resolution on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks although the woman was deported last month. Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan woman living in Fort Worth, Texas, was the first person to...
An Afghan permanent resident in Texas was deported after the Justice Department accused her of supporting ISIS-related terrorism. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, chose to leave the U.S. rather than continue fighting the case in the rarely used Alien Terrorist Removal Court, created in 1996 for cases involving classified national-security evidence. She was never criminally charged, but her son and son-in-law
Nazira Haji Zada conceded being an “alien terrorist” in a case heard by a secretive court established three decades ago but which held its first hearing this year.
Nazira Haji Zada, a lawful permanent resident, conceded to being an "alien terrorist." It marks the first case in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.
Court was created in 1996, but had never been used before Nazira Haji Zada’s case.