by Jason Houser | Aug 2, 2026 | immigration, Opinion
On the morning of March 13, Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal was preparing to take his children to school when federal immigration officers arrived at his home in Richardson, Texas.
Paktiawal was not unknown to the U.S. government. He fought alongside U.S. Special Forces in some of Afghanistan’s most dangerous terrain. After the Taliban returned to power, the United States evacuated him and his family in 2021 through a legal process established for Afghans endangered by their association with our country. He applied for asylum. His case was pending, and he was following the rules the U.S. imposed on him to keep him safe and provide him with legal status for his work on our country’s behalf.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him anyway.
Less than 24 hours later, the 41-year-old father of six was dead.
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Paktiawal’s death certificate says an unidentified substance caused an allergic drug reaction, triggering anaphylaxis and worsening his asthma. His relatives say ICE officers would not take the inhaler his wife tried to give them. The government cited two arrests in 2025, for theft and food stamp fraud, as why ICE moved to detain Paktiawal, but he had not been convicted of either allegation. His family is seeking the full autopsy and a complete explanation of what happened between the moment he was taken from his children and the moment he died.
In 2015, I served in Afghanistan as a Navy intelligence officer supporting Afghan and coalition forces. I remember the incoming fire, the constant concern about insider threats —
by Brett Wilkins | Jul 31, 2026 | Department of Health and Human Services, Deportations, Family Separation, immigrant children, Immigrants, immigration, Immigration Court, immigration courts, Migrant Children, News, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Trump Administration, unaccompanied children, unaccompanied minors, US Department of Health and Human Services
Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children could lose their lawyers beginning Friday as federally funded contracts supporting them are set to expire, prompting advocates to warn that the move will leave vulnerable minors to face deportation proceedings frightened and alone. Since 2003, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has funded a nationwide network of around 100…
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by Allison Detzel | Jul 30, 2026 | culture, immigration, News
Nicolle Wallace honored the life and legacy of beloved New York City youth baseball coach Youman Wilder after his family announced that the 63-year-old died unexpectedly earlier this month. Wilder, founder of the Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy, gained national prominence last year after he intervened when immigration agents approached a group of his students who were practicing in a local park and began to question them.
During an appearance on “Deadline: White House” last July, Wilder, who also held a master’s degree in law, called the questioning from agents “inappropriate” and advised his players to “implement their Fifth Amendment right.”
Wilder told Wallace that a majority of his teams consisted of Black and Latino players. Through his organization, he helped more than 400 young men earn college baseball scholarships and developed several major-league players.
The MS NOW host described Wilder as a “local legend” and said that with his death, “the baseball community has lost an iconic and now-famous coach and mentor, and this country has lost a patriot who used America’s pastime to show what this country looks like at its best.”
“For me, Youman was the first person who I saw do something that the powerful people refused to do in that first year of Trump’s presidency,” Wallace said, noting that the Brooklyn native “stood up against ICE when law firms were capitulating basically by the day, when universities were cutting deals basically by the week,” and when Republicans “were falling in line behind military troops in the streets of American cities, behind ICE raids that were sweeping up American citizens, behind detentions of young children at the Dilley Detention Center.”
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by Ariana Figueroa | Jul 29, 2026 | Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security, Deportations, DHS, ICE, immigration, News, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, TSA
The Trump administration has for more than a year used personal information airline passengers provide to the Transportation Security Administration for immigration enforcement, according to documents obtained by a government watchdog group. The documents, collected by the government accountability organization American Oversight, show for the first time a formal data-sharing agreement since…
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by Chris Walker | Jul 29, 2026 | Donald Trump, Economy, immigration, iran war, News, Polls, Trump approval rating
Just over a year and a half after he re-entered the White House for a second term, more Americans than ever disapprove of President Donald Trump’s job performance. According to a CNN/SSRS poll published on Wednesday, just 34 percent of Americans give Trump approving marks. Conversely, 66 percent say they disapprove of the way he’s handled his job as president. Trump’s approval numbers…
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by Ariana Figueroa | Jul 29, 2026 | Asylum Seekers, Deportations, DHS, Haitian immigrants, immigration, News, Trump Administration, USCIS
Washington — Federal asylum officers can deny interviews to asylum seekers and send them immediately to an immigration judge, speeding up deportation proceedings, under a rule U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published Tuesday. The rule, which takes effect immediately, will allow USCIS, a Department of Homeland Security agency, to refer directly to immigration judges certain asylum…
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