The U.S. Department of Justice is testing a long-dormant secretive deportation court on an Afghan woman who had alleged ties to ISIS. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
July 30 (UPI) -- The Trump administration on Thursday will test a secret, never-used deportation court for alleged terrorists with an Afghan mother whose son was convicted of terrorism because the Department of Justice believes she has Islamic State sympathies.
The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996, but has never been used. The administration will use it to try to deport Nazira Haji Zada, whose son was convicted last year for a terrorist plot targeting the 2024 election, according to court filings.
Zada, 47, is scheduled to appear in court at 11:30 EDT Thursday. The initial status hearing will be in a public, federal court in Washington D.C.
"The underlying information is classified because disclosure would enable terrorists and terrorist organizations to avoid preventative or detection measures or would reveal FBI or other U.S. Intelligence Community sources and methods by which such information is obtained," the DOJ said in the unclassified summary.
