Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family

An Afghan man who fought with U.S. forces and was legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul died this week within a day of being arrested by federal immigration officers in Texas, according to his family.

The reported death would be at least the 24th in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this fiscal year, which began in October. The administration is on track for the deadliest year in ICE detention in more than two decades.

Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, was preparing to drive his kids to school in the Dallas area on Friday when agents in unmarked vehicles allegedly surrounded him and arrested him in front of his children.

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      Historically soldiers were treated like shit and were poorly paid if at all, and after their service they were just forgotten and not cared for.

      The generation that fought WW2 had it best of all but it was far from the norm.

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        Historically soldiers were treated like shit and were poorly paid if at all, and after their service they were just forgotten and not cared for.

        The parents of the generation that fought in World War 2, who themselves fought in World War 1, struggled to get paid for actually fighting, like they were promised.

        When those WW1 veterans and their families organized a protest encampment in DC to demand that they be paid the money they were owed, the military was sent in to violently break up the encampment, with cavalry and tanks.

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      Not even that true. Yeah sometimes they would create a domestic compradore bourgeoisie but the majority of indigenous collaborators were just tossed aside once they were no longer useful. The US treatment of collaborators is not at all abnormal, empires are a rotten thing and always have been.

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    Refugees escaping fallen countries only to be killed in a country they believe to keep them safe, but no longer.

    To be killed by a fake cop, a gang-banger, or a racist bigot.

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    What a sad story, and what is also sad is how Americans keep accepting that USA has become the exact thing they used to fight against!

    I know that there are protests, but still this is allowed to continue to happen, and it is ONLY possible because the people allow it!
    So although there are good Americans that are against it, the vast majority don’t care enough to actually prevent it.

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      The USA has pretty much always been like this. The government has just stopped pretending that it’s not.