US EditionAfghan asylum seeker who worked with U.S. special forces dies in ICE custody
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, a healthy Afghan asylum seeker and former special forces soldier, died less than 24 hours after ICE detention; he is the 12th death in ICE custody this year.
- On Saturday, Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal died less than 24 hours after ICE agents detained him outside his Dallas-area apartment during a Friday targeted enforcement operation.
- AfghanEvac produced a certificate saying he served with U.S. special forces starting around 2005, but DHS said he provided no record and his humanitarian parole expired last August.
- During intake at an ICE Dallas field office, he complained of shortness of breath and chest pains; paramedics transported him to Dallas hospital, where staff noted tongue swelling and performed CPR before he died shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday.
- Community leaders said the death prompted widespread grief, with Rahmanullah Zazy saying, 'They're saying they took our community member alive to the detention center, and now we are getting the dead body,' and advocates demanding a full investigation.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports rising custody deaths and plans to expand detention to 92,600 beds amid scrutiny following November's Afghan evacuee shooting, with more than 70,000 detainees.
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A 41-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who once worked alongside United States forces has died in custody of immigration authorities less than a day after his arrest. The incident has triggered anger among his family and renewed scrutiny of detention conditions in the country. Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, a father of six based in Richardson, Texas, was taken into custody by agents of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on March 13 while headi…
An Afghan man who worked with the US military dies in ICE custody one day after being detained
An Afghan immigrant whose family said he had been evacuated from his home country after working for years with U.S. forces died at a Texas hospital after immigration authorities detained him, according to authorities.Federal immigration officials called Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal a "criminal" who had been arrested for alleged fraudulent use of food stamps and for theft. Officials also said Paktyawal had not provided any record of his military ser…
The U.S. immigration agency ICE is investigating the death of a man from Afghanistan. He was arrested on Friday, the next morning he was dead.
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An Afghan father who served with U.S. forces dies in ICE custody
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on Saturday after immigration authorities detained him.
The death of an Afghan citizen who was in custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) in Texas has once again put the spotlight on the treatment given to migrants detained by the agency as a result of the anti-immigration crusade of the Donald Trump government. On Friday morning, March 13, Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal was preparing to take his children to school when he was surrounded by masked agents who handcuffed him and arr…
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