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Omar Raid and Investigation Aimed at Deporting Congresswoman, Officials Say
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Article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) speaks at the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party Convention in the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minnesota on May 30, 2026.
(Photo by Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)
“Stripping the citizenship of opposition elected officials is really, really far down the road to fascism.”
“I have rarely wanted to be wrong more,” said one journalist Wednesday night after The Wall Street Journal confirmed what many supporters of US Rep. Ilhan Omar had suspected: that the Department of Homeland Security’s raid on her home this week was part of an investigation that is ultimately aimed at deporting her.
The Journal reported that US officials confirmed the Trump administration aims to revoke Omar’s (D-Minn.) citizenship, which she obtained in 2000, five years after she arrived in the US with her family from a refugee camp in Kenya. Omar is originally from Somalia, and President Donald Trump has made Somali Americans a key target of his mass deportation agenda and his racist attacks on immigrant communities.
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Agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), part of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seized Omar’s passport, cellphone, personal computers, and notebooks, according to the WSJ, when they searched her home in Washington, DC.
Authorities have also issued more than a dozen subpoenas and are seeking testimony from people including Omar’s family members before a grand jury.
A Justice Department official told the WSJ that the agency plans to build its case on allegations that Omar lied about her age when she became a citizen.
Federal investigators have been examining whether Omar’s father, who died in 2020, altered her age to say she was 17 instead of 18 on immigration paperwork when he applied for citizenship. Doing so would have allowed Omar to acquire citizenship through her father.
The congresswoman, who is currently running for a fifth term, has previously denied committing immigration fraud, which Vice President JD Vance has openly accused her of. Other Republican elected officials have explicitly attacked Omar for her criticism of Israel and for being a Muslim, with Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) calling her a “terrorist.”
Ilhan Omar came to the United States in March of 1995, when she was 12 years old. She became a citizen 5 years later, while she was still a minor.

Ilhan is now 44 years old and the Trump administration wants to deport her for political opposition to the president and Israel. https://t.co/4jFiuFj9zW
— Julian Andreone (@JulianAndreone) October 15, 2026
Trump has suggested the progressive lawmaker should be deported for “always complaining” and has called to “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility.”
Journalist Peter Sterne said Wednesday evening that “many on the left suspected” the administration was attempting to deport Omar, “but it’s still wild to see the WSJ confirm it.”
Many on the left suspected this was the case, but it’s still wild to see the WSJ confirm it.

Needless to say, stripping the citizenship of opposition elected officials is really, really far down the road to fascism. https://t.co/tFBVjvn59E
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) October 15, 2026
Dylan Williams of the Center for International Policy emphasized that the raid and investigation—carried out just weeks before the midterm elections and as Americans are already voting, though the Justice Department typically does not take actions against candidates just before an election—are “an attempt by the Trump administration to stir up its flagging base ahead of elections that are going to be brutal for them.”
“Nonetheless, we need to fight this fascist, un-American abuse of power, hold those responsible accountable, and stand with Ilhan Omar,” said Williams.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, noted that “a case of this magnitude would take years to wend its way through the courts,” and said DHS would have to initiate deportation proceedings after Omar was denaturalized.
Still, a number of observers wondered why many prominent Democrats—like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and vocal Trump critic Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) have stayed quiet about the raid on Omar’s house.
“Democrats, nice time to do a press conference united in defense of Ilhan Omar and condemning the Islamophobia against Muslim candidates,” said commentator Wajahat Ali.
New York state Assembly Member Diana Moreno (D-36) said of the WSJ’s reporting, “This is either the breaking point of our democracy or the moment we start fighting like hell to win back this country from the authoritarian demons in the White House. I stand with Ilhan Omar.”
Article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
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16 October 2026
Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Illegal Spying and Retaliation Targeting ICE Monitors
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Article by Brett Wilkins republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Union del Barrio volunteer Lupe Carrasco Cardona drives while monitoring US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
“The federal government cannot build secret dossiers on people because they exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully observe, document, or criticize its actions,” said the head of Democracy Forward.
“The federal government cannot build secret dossiers on people because they exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully observe, document, or criticize its actions,” said the head of Democracy Forward.
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The plaintiffs—the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and legal observers Nicole Cleland, Jacquelyn Ivey, and Anna Walker—argued that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and other federal agencies created and maintained databases of people who observed, documented, or protested immigration enforcement activities without providing notification or safeguards, as required under the Privacy Act of 1974.
That law was passed after the exposure of illegal government surveillance, including longtime former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover’s infamous COINTELPRO program, under which the FBI, in addition to conducting unlawful spying, funded and armed murderous far-right militants to terrorize anti-Vietnam War protesters, anti-nuclear weapons activists, civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leftists.
“The federal government cannot build secret dossiers on people because they exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully observe, document, or criticize its actions,” Democracy Forward president and CEO Skye Perryman said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “That is exactly the kind of government surveillance Congress sought to prevent when it enacted the Privacy Act after some of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history.”
The lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of collecting the names, photographs, vehicle information and license plate numbers, social media accounts, and other identifying information about legal observers, volunteers, journalists, clergy, and community members engaged in First Amendment-protected activities during the government’s deadly anti-immigrant crackdown.
“When the Department of Homeland Security dramatically ratcheted up its immigration enforcement, people across the country—of all ages and backgrounds—did what anyone is supposed to do when they disagree with government action: They exercised their First Amendment rights,” the suit states. “They peacefully protested. And, as matters here, they observed and recorded how law enforcement agents acted in public.”
DHS is using facial recognition technology, body cameras, license plates, mobile devices, and other surveillance tools to identify, track, and punish people who legally observe immigration enforcement in public. This is a clear violation of the Privacy Act. We’ll see them in court.
— Democracy Forward (@democracyforward.org) 2026-07-24T17:36:46.803836578Z
“In response, DHS decided to record the Americans who were peacefully observing its agents, adopting a secret Protester Surveillance Policy enabling its agents to first collect records on Americans engaging in First Amendment exercise and then maintain them in DHS systems, where they can be used to retaliate against those Americans,” the complaint continues.
“Beginning sometime in 2025, DHS deployed a dragnet of drones, bodycams, face-scanning apps, license plate scanners, and camera phones to, as one memo instructed, ‘capture all images, license plates, identifications, and general information on hotels, agitators, protestors, etc., so we can capture it all in one consolidated form,’” the document notes.
“DHS agents have not been shy about gathering this information or its purpose,” the plaintiffs contended. “In Maine, DHS agents told multiple observers that they were being added to a database of ‘domestic terrorists.’ In Chicago, agents routinely used facial irecognition scans on members of the public.”
“In Minneapolis, observers simply watching agents on public streets have been led by those agents to their own houses, despite never having interacted with an agent—a practice so common that it has been named ‘being driven home by ICE,’” the suit says. “And across the country, DHS agents have approached observers and addressed them by their full names, even though those observers never identified themselves to the agents or showed them any form of identification.”
“As a result of its Protester Surveillance Policy, DHS has recorded and retaliated against each individual plaintiff,” the filing alleges. “It’s bad enough that DHS publicly collected information on Americans engaged in lawful First Amendment exercise. But worse, DHS also decided to maintain the information in one or more of its systems, enabling it to later retaliate against observers and protestors—including by canceling Trusted Traveler status,” which includes Transportation Security Administration Pre-Check and Global Entry.
The plaintiffs are asking the court to declare the DHS surveillance policy unlawful, end it, and ban the agency from continuing to collect and keep records of individuals’ protected First Amendment activities.
“Now more than ever, those of us who have the privilege to speak out have a responsibility to defend the rights of everyone in our communities,” Walker said in a statement. “When people are punished for exercising their First Amendment rights, we begin losing the democratic principles that protect all of us. Every American should be alarmed by retaliatory action against one’s free speech.”
Cleland said: “I believe government accountability starts with transparency. People should be free to peacefully observe and document what their government does in public without worrying they’ll be tracked or retaliated against. This case is about protecting that right for everyone.”
EPIC deputy director John Davisson warned, “When our government compiles secret dossiers on everyday people for exercising their constitutional rights, it sends a chilling message: If you speak up, watch your back.”
“If every protest, every recording, every act of dissent opens us up to surveillance and retribution, privacy and free speech are at risk of collapse,” he added. “But the laws of this nation don’t permit that, and we won’t either.”

Article by Brett Wilkins republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
26 July 2026
Trump Admin Finally Hands Over Evidence on Good and Pretti Killings to Minnesota Prosecutors After Withholding It For 6 Months
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Article by Stephen Prager republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
People walk by signs memorializing Renee Good and Alex Pretti on February 12, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said it “should never have taken this long.”
After being shut out of the investigations by the Trump administration, Minnesota prosecutors announced on Monday that federal investigators finally turned over reams of unseen evidence related to shootings by immigration agents that killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti and injured Julio Sosa-Celis in January.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced that after “six months of relentless collective effort,” state and local prosecutors had “obtained hard drives of previously withheld evidence” about the killings, which took place during the administration’s aggressive surge of immigration agents in and around Minneapolis and sparked a wave of protests.
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Moriarty added that prosecutors had also obtained some physical evidence that was “previously withheld” by federal investigators. This includes the SUV that Good, a 37-year-old US citizen and mother of three, had been driving when she was shot through her driver’s side window by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross as she appeared to be leaving the scene of an enforcement operation.
Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announces two-way evidence sharing between state and federal agencies for Metro Surge shootings: pic.twitter.com/dI08IpppUc
— Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty (@HennepinAtty) July 13, 2026
Attorney Antonio Romanucci and the legal team representing the family of Good said in a statement that turning over the vehicle and other evidence was “an important and meaningful step towards justice and accountability,” and that they were “grateful for the resumption of regular investigatory protocols, which is not only important for the families impacted in these cases, but it is essential for the community and the country.”
Shortly after Good was shot, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin portrayed her as a “violent rioter” who had attempted to run over Ross with her car, which then-Secretary Kristi Noem claimed was an “act of domestic terrorism.” But video evidence showed that her wheels were pointed away from the agent, indicating that she was attempting to leave.
Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller similarly described Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, another US citizen, as a “would-be assassin” while DHS said he showed up at a protest against ICE attempting to “massacre law enforcement” based on the fact that he was carrying a legal firearm when he was shot by two Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents.
Videos showed that Pretti had intervened to stop agents from harming another protester and only held his phone during the confrontation, never reaching for his gun.
Sosa-Celis, a 24-year-old Venezuelan national, was called a “violent criminal alien” by DHS, which accused him and his two roommates of having attacked agent Christian Castro with snow shovels, leading Sosa-Celis to be shot in the leg through the door of the home.
Assault charges against him and his roommate were dropped by federal prosecutors after video and medical evidence showed that Castro had not been attacked. ICE Director Todd Lyons acknowledged that the agents had lied about the incident, and Castro has since been arrested after being charged by Moriarty’s office as part of an independent investigation.
Neither Ross nor the two CBP agents who shot Pretti—Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez—have been charged.
Federal authorities have repeatedly rejected demands from Minnesota officials to cooperate with investigations into the three shootings and grant access to evidence and the ability to interview witnesses.
In the case of Pretti, agents blocked investigators with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from entering the shooting scene after the BCA had obtained a search warrant and removed physical evidence before Minnesota investigators could document it. This included Pretti’s gun, cellphone, and body camera footage, and other physical and digital evidence.
In March, Minnesota sued the Trump administration over its refusal to cooperate with the investigations, a lawsuit that was still ongoing as of Monday.
The federal government did not explain its sudden change of direction. The Associated Press described it as part of an agreement in which Minnesota agreed to share evidence it had collected in Castro’s case if the federal government shared evidence it was withholding about the shootings of Good and Pretti.
Moriarty thanked the federal officials for “their willingness to consider changing course to share evidence and promote public trust.”
But Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison emphasized that it “should never have taken this long.”
“I remain deeply troubled that the federal government spent more than half a year attempting to conceal this evidence from state investigators,” he said in a statement. “And I hope this is the beginning of a major course correction on the part of the federal government.”
US Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) agreed that “this took way too long” and said, “It’s not enough.”
“Minnesotans’ trust has been fundamentally broken,” she said. “There’s a long way to go before we get true justice for ICE killing two of our neighbors.”
The feds are finally sharing evidence from Renee Good and Alex Pretti's killings, but this took way too long, and it's not enough. Minnesotans' trust has been fundamentally broken. There's a long way to go before we get true justice for ICE killing two of our neighbors. pic.twitter.com/2XT3UiePEt
— Tina Smith (@SenTinaSmith) July 13, 2026
The federal government’s decision to turn over evidence to Minnesota officials came less than a week after an ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican father in Houston, whom DHS claimed had attempted to attack officers with his car, only to once again be undermined by video and witness accounts.
DHS has acknowledged that it was not attempting to target Salgado for removal and had mistaken his van for someone else’s.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare has said that, just like in Minnesota, the federal government was refusing to share evidence with local officials.
“The federal government has not invited us in,” Teare said. “The federal government is not collaborating with us with this investigation.”
On Monday, ICE agents killed another man in Maine, 26-year-old Colombian father Joan Sebastian Guerrero, who was reportedly shot several times after stopping his vehicle, according to video footage.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said Guerrero “weaponized” his vehicle and attempted to ram officers. One eyewitness told Reuters they saw a federal SUV ram Guerrero’s car.
According to Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), Mullin said that Guerrero, who was authorized to work in the US and had a Social Security number, was not the target of the warrant agents were executing.
Article by Stephen Prager republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
14 July 2026
‘Abolish ICE,’ Says Mamdani After Agent Kills Houston Man Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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Article by Brett Wilkins republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
People grieve at a makeshift memorial to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a candlelight vigil on July 8, 2026 in Houston after Salgado was fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Salgado “called Houston home for 35 years,” said New York’s democratic socialist mayor. “On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him.”
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday renewed his call to “abolish ICE” after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a man in Texas earlier this week.
“Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him,” Mamdani said on social media. “His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.”
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“New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability,” the mayor added. “To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: We grieve with you, and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.”
More than 1,000 people gathered in Houston’s East End on Wednesday evening to denounce ICE and remember Salgado, a 52-year-old married father of three originally from Mexico who, according to relatives, was in the process of legalizing his status in the United States.
Salgado’s son, school teacher Ronaldo Salgado, said that his father had “dedicated his life to giving his family the American dream.”
Salgado was driving in the Magnolia Park neighborhood to pick up his construction crew on Tuesday morning when an unidentified ICE agent fatally shot him during an enforcement operation. ICE claimed that Salgado tried to evade arrest and threatened agents with his vehicle, but his family, civil rights advocates, and community leaders strongly dispute that account, pointing to surveillance footage and eyewitness accounts that they argue undermine the agency’s narrative.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told The New York Times late on Thursday that neither Salgado nor any of his three passengers were the targets of ICE enforcement, but that they drew agents’ attention because one of them resembled a wanted man from Guatemala.
Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups have joined Salgado’s relatives in demanding an independent investigation of his killing.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Thursday that her government plans to file criminal complaints in the United States in connection with 14 Mexican nationals who died in ICE custody. Sheinbaum added that Salgado’s killing “is not only sad and regrettable, but also appears to have been targeted.”
On-duty officers from ICE and other Department of Homeland Security agencies have fatally shot at least four other people during President Donald Trump’s deadly second-term crackdown on undocumented immigrants: Silverio Villegas González of Mexico and US citizens Ruben Ray Martinez, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti.
At least dozens of people have also died in ICE custody or shortly after being released during Trump’s second term. Last month, ICE announced that it was rescinding a 2021 Biden administration policy requiring congressional notification and an investigation whenever a detainee died within 30 days of their release.
Article by Brett Wilkins republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
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10 July 2026
Footage Contradicts DHS Claim That It Dropped Blind Rohingya Refugee at ‘Safe Location’ in Buffalo
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Original article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
A person matching the description of Nurul Shah Alam walks through the parking lot at a Tim Hortons donut shop in Buffalo, New York on February 19, 2026. (Image: @evanhill/X)
Nurul Shah Alam was found dead on a Buffalo street this week, days after being released from a county jail and dropped at a closed coffee shop by Border Patrol agents.
Surveillance footage taken at a Tim Hortons donut shop in Buffalo, New York contradicts the US Department of Homeland Security’s claim that Border Patrol agents dropped Nurul Shah Alam, a 56-year-old nearly blind Rohingya refugee, at a “warm, safe location” after he was released from jail last week, days before he was found dead.
The video obtained by the Buffalo-based outlet Investigative Postlate Wednesday showed a white van pulling up to the shop at about 8:18 pm Eastern, more than an hour after the store—except its drive-thru window—had closed for the night.
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A man identified by the Investigative Post as Shah Alam is seen walking by the drive-thru window and then approaching the locked door before walking across the parking lot.
Breaking: IPost has obtained footage showing a Border Patrol van dropping off Nurul Shah Alam at a closed Tim Hortons last Thursday.

Shah Alam, nearly-blind & unable to enter the shop, then wandered the city for days. He was found dead Tuesday.https://t.co/fCtRtaxaU9 pic.twitter.com/VkEqgiAUVe
— Investigative Post (@ipostnews) February 27, 2026
The Border Patrol agents who dropped off Shah Alam—who spoke no English and was blind in one eye with partial, blurry vision in the other—appeared to make no attempt to ensure the Tim Hortons was actually a “safe, warm location” that he could access. The van pulled out of the parking lot less than a minute after Shah Alam was seen exiting it.
When the news broke Wednesday that Shah Alam’s body had been found on a Buffalo street days after he was dropped off following his release—and after subfreezing temperatures hit the Western New York city over the weekend—a spokesperson for Border Patrol said the agents had “offered him a courtesy ride, which he chose to accept to a coffee shop” that was “determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.”
They also claimed that Shah Alam, who used a walking stick to get around before his arrest last year, “showed no signs of distress, mobility issues, or disabilities requiring special assistance.”
The agents never notified Shah Alam’s wife and children or his lawyers that he had been dropped off.
“So when [the Department of Homeland Security] says they ‘offered him a courtesy ride to a warm, safe location’… they mean they abandoned him in the parking lot of a closed Tim Hortons in the middle of a winter evening in Buffalo,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International. “They lie about EVERYTHING.”
Shah Alam had been detained at the Erie County Holding Center since February 2025, when he got lost on the way home from a store where he’d purchased a curtain rod to use as a walking stick. He ended up in the backyard of a woman who called the police, who later reported Shah Alam was swinging the rod “in a menacing manner”—a claim his lawyer denies.
The Investigative Post also obtained police body camera footage of the arrest, which shows Shah Alam saying, “OK” and dropping one end of the curtain rod when an officer told him to put the stick on the ground. The footage also showed the officers Tasering Shah Alam and tackling him to the ground.

After the incident, Shah Alam was charged with assault, trespassing, and possession of a weapon—his walking stick—and held at Erie County Holding Center until last Thursday, after he took a plea deal. He agreed to plead guilty to trespassing and possession of a weapon and was able to avoid immigration detention even though Border Patrol had issued a detainer on him after the arrest, saying he was eligible for deportation.
Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan told the Investigative Post Thursday that upon finding the Tim Hortons closed last week, Border Patrol should have taken Shah Alam back to the Erie County Holding Center, where sheriff’s deputies who knew his family from their frequent visits to the jail could have called them.
“The lawyer was not informed, and the family is just saying, ‘You had our contact information, you had our address,’” a family friend named Khaleda Shah, told the outlet. “Why not drop him at the address that’s on file for him? Why not bring you back to the holding center, rather than Tim Hortons?”
When New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof posted on X about Shah Alam’s death on Thursday, DHS responded with its claim that the agents had brought him to a safe location.
“Video shows that it was night and the coffee shop was closed, so he never entered it,” Kristof replied, “Instead, mostly blind and in need of a cane, unable to speak English, he tried to walk home through the freezing night—because your agents never called his family or lawyer but seem to have left him to die. Do you see how your credibility is undermined when you repeatedly make claims that are later contradicted by video evidence? Why should we trust statements from an agency with such a record of deceit?”
DHS had not publicly responded at press time.
Refugees International was among those calling for a full investigation into Border Patrol’s “abandonment” of Shah Alam.
Daniel P. Sullivan, the group’s director Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, noted that the US determined in 2022 that the Myanmar military had committed genocide against the Rohingya people, and Shah Alam was resettled in the US in 2024 after surviving the violence and persecution.
“The death of Shah Alam comes in the midst of ongoing violent immigration enforcement operations by [Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents that have led to widespread abuse and neglect of legally resettled refugees as well as deaths of immigrants and American citizens alike,” said Sullivan.
“Refugees International, once again, strongly condemns the Trump administration’s hateful and dehumanizing targeting of those who seek refuge,” he said. “We express solidarity with Mr. Shah Alam’s family, the broader Rohingya community, and all of our neighbors who face increased uncertainty and risks of harm due to the Trump administration’s current policies.”
He also said that one member of the Rohingya community had told the organization that Shah Alam’s “safe haven became a tragedy for him.”
Original article by Julia Conley republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
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