Overview
- He was taken into ICE custody earlier this month while at an immigration office in New Jersey and is held at the Elizabeth Detention Center as deportation proceedings move forward.
- His lawyers have filed motions in federal court seeking to terminate the removal process and to bar deportation while legal challenges over his protection continue.
- Redacted FBI documents cited in recent reporting describe some of his tips as “reliable” and link his cooperation to investigations that touched on Osama bin Laden and other terror suspects.
- Skoro says he was recruited after the 9/11 attacks while in prison, was deported in 2007 despite promises of protection, later returned to the U.S., and says he was wounded in an assassination attempt in Kosovo.
- The family’s plea for relief and the legal fight highlight a wider tension between using noncitizen informants in counterterror work and how immigration rules and courts handle their protection.