Foreign Terrorist Removal Court, created in 1996, holds first hearing
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
WASHINGTON — A 47-year-old Texas mother whose son and son-in-law were convicted of conspiring to carry out an ISIS-inspired attack made history on Thursday by becoming the first person to appear before a court established by Congress in 1996 to expedite the deportation of 'foreign terrorists.' Nazira Haji Zada, who has not been charged with any crime, appeared before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court in front of Chief Judge Joan Ericksen, who normally serves as a federal judge in Minnesota. Under this court, the United States can seek to remove non-citizens from the country by presenting them as foreign terrorists with a lower burden of proof than would be required for a criminal conviction. Appeals from this court would be submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Nazira, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, was detained earlier this week. The Department of Justice described her as 'the matriarch of a foreign Afghan family.'
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