The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to deport an Afghan alien after filing the first-ever case in a decades-old Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), according to a Thursday press release.

Newswise — As the Alien Terrorist Removal Court prepares for a release hearing today, I wanted to flag Aram Gavoor, a GW Law professor and leading expert on the court, who is available to discuss the ...

The Trump administration activated a never-before-used pathway for removing alien terrorists from the United States. Since its creation in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court had lain dormant ...

Attorney General Todd Blanche in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Justice Department, for the first time in history, used a ...

Expedited removal proceedings were proposed initially in the early 1980s as summary exclusions in response to the Mariel boatlift, a reaction to Cuba’s Castro regime that brought approximately 125,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the General Accountability Office, in June of 1989, there were only 69 immigration judges. This made it difficult for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Justice is seeking to deport the mother of a convicted ISIS supporter through the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, ...

The resolution gave DOJ a removal order but, perhaps more importantly, spared it from defending the court’s constitutionality while at the same time providing a successful test run for future cases.

Updated July 31, 2026 at 11:37 AM EDT The Justice Department has activated a special court that's never before been used to argue for the removal of a woman accused of supporting the Islamic State.

Trump has found a new way of getting around due process: the Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), which hasn't been used since 1996.

India, Sept. 13 -- In the first-ever case before the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), Nazira Haji Zada, 47, an Afghan national who previously resided in Fort Worth, Texas, has been ...