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When H learned that he would continue to be held, with no resolution on the horizon, he made a plea:

Late on the afternoon before the hearing, DHS had filed an FBI memo that said H was under a “National Security investigation” and was considered “a potential threat.”

In court, the judge questioned the prosecutor about the memo. I've never before seen an exchange like this over evidence.

Last week, a DHS attorney announced in court that the government has not finished his background check and could not estimate when it would. The frustrated immigration judge acknowledged that, by law, she doesn’t have the option to grant him asylum without a finalized check.

And a link to our original story on the man,
who supported the war in Afghanistan, came to the U.S. legally, applied for asylum, had two kids, became a bookkeeper, bought an American flag bumper sticker.

Then ICE arrested him. If he's deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.
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1. “Abandoned by Trump, a Farmer and a Migrant Search for a Better Future” @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social, Sarah Blaskey, Matt McClain

"To survive the administration’s cuts and cruelty, a Trump voter and an immigrant needed each other."

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