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The Trump administration has activated an untested secret court created after 9/11 to deport people deemed 'alien terrorists' without standard due process. It marks the first use of this controversial mechanism.
The Trump administration has begun using a secret deportation court created under post-9/11 national security laws to remove people classified as 'alien terrorists' without traditional due process protections. The mechanism, built into law decades ago, was never activated until now. The court operates with minimal transparency, limited rights to legal representation, and excludes the public from proceedings.
This isn't a tweaked enforcement tool—it's a parallel legal system designed for emergency use that the administration is normalizing for routine cases. Once a precedent like this is set, it becomes harder to restrict later. The court's opacity means there's little accountability for how broadly 'alien terrorist' gets defined or whether evidence meets any standard threshold. Even supporters of strict immigration enforcement have historically worried that creating secret courts for one category of people tends to expand.
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