{"id":793446,"date":"2026-07-30T14:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793446\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:07:13","slug":"alien-terrorist-removal-court-to-hold-its-first-ever-hearing-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793446\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Terrorist Removal Court to hold its first-ever hearing : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Justice Department is turning for the first time to a special court to argue for the removal of a woman accused of supporting the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department wants to use the Alien Terrorist Removal Court to deport Nazira Haji Zada, a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. She will appear in court for the first hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Congress created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court in 1996 to make it easier for the Justice Department to use classified evidence to deport people from American soil.<\/p>\n

Authorities have never before used the court. But this month, the DOJ launched the process against Zada, a 47-year-old woman based in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors already brought<\/a> criminal charges against her son and son-in-law for trying to attack the 2024 elections on behalf of the Islamic State, a terror organization. Both men were sentenced to time in prison and will be deported after serving their sentences.<\/p>\n

“The allegations in this case show the matriarch of an ISIS-sympathizing family aiding in a plot to launch a mass casualty attack on American voters on Election Day,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. “The Department’s application in this court makes clear that terrorists have no place in the United States of America.”<\/p>\n

Judge Joan Ericksen, the chief judge of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, will preside over the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A banner of an image of President Trump is displayed on the facade of the U.S. Department of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-793446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}