Within 24 hours of being taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), former Afghan Special Forces soldier Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal was dead. While ICE seeks to paint the father of six as a criminal, advocates working with Afghan refugees say his death was a preventable tragedy.
When officers arrived at Paktyawal's Richardson, Texas, home on March 13, they arrested the 41-year-old in front of his children. Paktyawal's wife told #AfghanEvac that she alerted arresting officers that her husband required an inhaler to breathe. She said officers did not take the inhaler and did not allow her to provide it later.
