The body count from federal immigration enforcement keeps climbing and nobody is changing that.
Tonight we learned Nurul Amin Shah Alam is dead. Shah Alam was a 56 year old Rohingya refugee in county jail, released improperly to Border Patrol. Agents held him four hours, realized they had no reason to, and dropped him at a coffee shop five miles from his home without telling anyone. A nearly blind man who couldn’t speak English or use a phone wandered Buffalo for days. His body was discovered hours ago.
And today in Texas, a grand jury refused to indict the HSI agent who shot 23 year old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez three times through his car window on South Padre Island last year. DHS hid their involvement for a year. The only witness who contradicted their story died in a car crash Saturday.
Call your representatives and demand DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s resignation or impeachment. Too many have died at the hands of her agents enforcing her policies.
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Source: KARE Minneapolis
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Source: Newsweek
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Source: CBS News
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: The Guardian
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Source: UPI
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Source: Reuters
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: NBC News
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Source: The New York Times [gift link]
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Source: The Independent
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Source: CNN
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Source: The Colorado Sentinel
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Source: The Florida Phoenix
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Mostly blind Myanmar refugee who spoke no English found dead in Buffalo five days after Border Patrol agents dropped him at a Tim Hortons without notifying anyone.
Source: The Buffalo News
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Source: WNYW New York
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Texas grand jury declines to indict ICE agent who fatally shot 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Martinez on South Padre Island, days after the only passenger who contradicted the government's account died in a car crash.
Source: The Texas Tribune
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Source: KTLA Los Angeles
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Source: The Washington Post [gift link]
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Source: News from the States
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Source: The Washington Post [gift link]
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Source: Courthouse News
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