It has been revealed that the Trump Administration, in the first-ever application to the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, is seeking to deport an ISIS-aligned terrorist whose sons were arrested for planning a mass casualty attack on election day.
According to an unclassified Justice Department document, “Nazira Haji Zada is the subject of an FBI national security investigation and is being investigated for crimes related to international terrorism.”
Her son, Abdullah Haji Zada, and son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, were arrested by the FBI after they “conspired to relocate their female and juvenile male family members, including NAZIRA, to ISIS controlled territory in Afghanistan, while they would remain in the U.S. to conduct an attack on behalf of ISIS.”
“The FBI has developed information that NAZIRA is a supporter of ISIS, has formally pledged loyalty to ISIS, and supported TAWHEDI and ABDULLAH’s conspiracy. The FBI is further aware that NAZIRA, in collaboration with TAWHEDI, worked to indoctrinate her children with ISIS ideology and have them pledge loyalty to ISIS. NAZIRA worked with TAWHEDI to radicalize the family and to conceal their pro-ISIS teaching and planned family relocation to ISIS-controlled territory from her unsuspecting husband Abdul Haji Zada,” the memo reads.
Via politico’s Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: We now know who the Trump admin is seeking to remove via the Alien Terrorist Removal Court: a lawful permanent resident suspected of pledging loyalty to ISIS and radicalizing her kids, one of whom was convicted of attempting to provide support to terrorists.… pic.twitter.com/qPB7Y3PjAl
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 30, 2026
“Congress created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court three decades ago to remove from the United States alien terrorists who never should have been here in the first place,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. “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. The Department’s application in this court makes clear that terrorists have no place in the United States of America.”
The court, created in 1996, has never been used before. “Zada was arrested earlier this week and will appear before the ATRC’s Chief Judge Joan N. Ericksen in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, July 30, at 11:00 a.m,” according to a DOJ press release.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month, the administration made the first application to use the court in history.
A July 16 order from the Alien Terrorist Removal Court reveals that the United States filed the first-ever application to the court to remove an unnamed respondent on July 15.
A hearing was held on July 16, during which the court was persuaded that “the Government could benefit from the opportunity for more thoughtful consideration,” Chief Judge Joan Eriksen wrote.
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