This is chilling and should alarm anyone who cares about the rule of law, civil liberties, and immigrant rights. Nazira Haji Zada was a lawful permanent resident — never charged with a crime — and was essentially forced to give up her status rather than continue fighting in a court that withholds the evidence against her. That is not due process; it’s coerced exile dressed up as “national security.” Secretive tribunals that allow the government to call someone an alien terrorist without showing the underlying evidence to the person or their lawyers set a dangerous precedent. We’ve seen too often how vague national-security claims are used to target Muslim and immigrant communities; this is exactly the kind of power that can be abused to punish people by association, silence dissent, and sow fear in communities that should be able to trust the justice system. National security and civil liberties aren’t mutually exclusive. If there truly is classified evidence, there are established, constitutionally sound ways to handle it — cleared counsel, special advocates, in-camera review, or carefully limited redactions — none of which replace meaningful access to the case against you. The ATRC’s opaque procedures sweep away those safeguards and substitute administrative banishment for criminal accountability. Congress and the courts should immediately scrutinize this court and its use. If the ATRC allows removal without basic procedural protections, it needs to be reformed or abolished. In the meantime, we should support the legal challenge to this process, demand transparency and oversight from the Justice Department, and insist that immigrant communities be treated with the same legal safeguards we claim to uphold for citizens. If we value democracy and equal protection under the law, we can’t let secret trials become the new normal.