US deports Afghan woman in first-ever Alien Terrorist Removal Court case over ISIS plot

The ATRC was established nearly three decades ago but had never previously been used. Its first case comes as the Donald Trump administration steps up efforts to deport foreign nationals accused of posing national-security or terrorism threats.

New Delhi: The United States has deported an Afghan woman accused of supporting an ISIS-inspired plan to carry out a mass shooting on Election Day in 2024, in the first-ever case brought before the country’s long-dormant Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC).

Nazira Haji Zada, 47, was removed to Afghanistan after conceding that she was an ‘alien terrorist’, according to the US Justice Department. The case marks the first time the special federal court, created by Congress in 1996, has been used to remove a person from the United States.

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Haji Zada was arrested at her home in........

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