First use of Alien Terrorist Removal Court sends Afghan woman back after Election Day ISIS plot: DOJ
Congress built that court in 1996. Election Day 2024 was the first time it flew anyone home.
Summary
- Fox News reports Nazira Haji Zada, 47, an Afghan lawful permanent resident in Fort Worth, was deported after admitting before the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court that she was an 'alien terrorist,' the first successful use of a court Congress created 30 years ago.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche called the prompt removal a win for national security. The court issued her removal order on Aug. 20. She is barred from returning.
- Her son Abdullah Haji Zada and son-in-law Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi were arrested in October 2024 after buying guns and ammunition from an undercover FBI agent. They later admitted buying AK-47 rifles for an Islamic State mass shooting on Election Day 2024. The son drew 15 years. Tawhedi awaits sentencing.
- DOJ said the family sold possessions to fund the plot and bought one-way tickets to Kabul except for the two shooters. FBI Director Kash Patel called the deportation historic. Defense lawyers said consenting to removal is not an endorsement of the court's legitimacy and claimed the evidence was withheld.
Commentary
A Fort Worth dad still smells gym-floor wax on Election Day and knows a poll line is supposed to be safer than an AK receipt. He did not wait behind a rope so a green-card household could sell the furniture and buy one-way tickets while the shooters stayed.
1996 statute. First use. Aug. 20 order. 15 years for the son. The honest household already paid the levy. The court sat empty for three decades while the street paid the wait.
Look every working father who still walks a kid past a precinct door in the eye and answer this: if Congress already built the terrorist court, who still owns the next Election Day in that city?
Comments
Fort Worth LPR. Aug. 20 order. First ATRC case. Hold that chain.
I stood a gate so a poll site stayed a poll site. An AK buy is not a paperwork mix-up.
Blanche. Patel. 1996 statute. Print the three.
Allied rolls still treat an ISIS family plot as a removal file, not a due-process seminar.
October 2024 buys. One-way Kabul tickets. 15-year sentence. File the three.
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next plot on a plane, not in a Fort Worth kitchen.
A one-way ticket for the household and rifles for the shooters is not a rumor. It is a warning the street already paid.
A unused 1996 court is a second border around a precinct. The first statute should have been enough.
Fox printed ATRC, Aug. 20, and the AK-47 buys. Argue those nouns.
Keep the court open. Keep the bar on return. A green card is not a shield for an ISIS kitchen.
