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Seems like my feeds keep handing me stories about the current ICE crackdown in which folks are detained or even deported who shouldn’t be.<\/p>\n
Now, we all voted for someone to do something concrete about immigration – it was totally out of control, too many of the wrong sort got in (and have more or less stayed in) and that needs to stop. Good on the Administration for slowing the border-jumping criminals to at least some extent.<\/p>\n
But I am a tad concerned that ICE is going above and beyond that mandate. I see story after story about immigrants trying to do it right, clean records, have been working through our (convoluted, incredibly dumb-ass process) and yet are getting arrested, shipped across the country to confinement centers literally thousands of miles away – and they are the GOOD guys. Didn’t we vote to ship out the MS-13, the narcotraficantes, the folks that NEED to go away – yet we are constantly hearing about businesses being raided, their employees (who apparently have legit clearance via I-9), taken away – are these the folks we should be seeing getting outprocessed?<\/p>\n
Case in point – Sayed Naser. No criminal record in Afghanistan or the US – and he was one of our interpreters in Afghanistan. The kind we here at TAH Raised hell about getting admitted quickly, because in Afghanistan they have a big lethal target on their back\u00a0 – and they earned it working for us.<\/em><\/p>\n Naser was legally paroled into the U.S in 2024, according to his lawyer, Brian McGoldrick. In addition to an active asylum case, he has a pending Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) case because of his long history supporting the U.S. military<\/span>. SIVs are provided to foreign nationals who worked with U.S. military forces<\/span>\u00a0in war zones including Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. Naser has no criminal record in the U.S. or Afghanistan, according to court records reviewed by CBS News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is the kind of guy we want to keep, no? And if nothing else, we have to because every time we use a native and abandon them, we weaken. And in all honesty, we have been doing it pretty constantly for 50 years.<\/p>\n In a video obtained by CBS News, two unidentified ICE agents put Sayed Naser in handcuffs and escorted him from the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego after he attended a mandatory immigration hearing on Wednesday, June 11.<\/p>\n “For more than three years I worked for the U.S. military back in my home country,” Naser said in the video as the masked officers took him into custody. “I came here to make a better life. I didn’t know this was going to happen like this for me.”<\/p>\n But after the U.S. withdrew<\/span> from the country in August 2021, his partnership with American forces put targets on the backs of Naser and his family. In 2023, Taliban fighters killed his brother and abducted his father at a family wedding. The attack drove Naser out of the country and forced his wife and children to flee their home.<\/p>\n “I cannot return to Afghanistan under any circumstances because I am accused of collaborating with U.S. forces. From the Taliban’s perspective, anyone who worked with foreign forces during the past 20 years is a spy, an infidel, and must be killed,” Naser wrote in his asylum declaration. His family remains in hiding outside of Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0CBS News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Secretary Noem revoked Temporary Protected Status for 11,000 Afghans who had fled to the US. There are a further 100,000 still in Afghanistan waiting to get out before the Taliban does something ugly.<\/p>\n They say the current catchall is that asylum was “Improvidently issued”, so many aren’t really eligible. So which is it – was DHS incompetent under the last administration? Or this one? Or…both?\u00a0 I do think they are to get Noem and Trump as high a body count as possible… they kinda remind me of Vietnam commanders claiming anything they could as a kill to keep their commanders (all the way up the chain) thinking we were winning.<\/p>\n Having seen friends and family deal with Immigration, DHS et al before, my money is on option three.<\/p>\n Let’s see mass deportations of MS-13 members. Tren de Aragua? Sure. Illegals who happen to be felons? Absolutely. People trying to actually comply with the laws ? Ah, no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"