The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/cbp-shah-alam-border-patrol-buffalo-death-letitia-james/

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This Mother Jones report is a haunting look at what happens when "extraordinary" neglect meets a vulnerable human being. A homicide ruling for a refugee left on a freezing street corner should change the blueprint for how we manage our borders. 🧭🕯️ #HumanRights #MotherJones
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😏💔
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abusing innocent man who’d already been abused by PRC

How does this everyday Americans?
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I have Nurul Amin Shah Alam on my ICE death list already. I have him and Daphy Michel in a category I call "death by cruel release procedure".
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This is profoundly shameful
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Heartbreaking
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Involuntary manslaughter at the least.
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Our country miserably failed this poor soul. From the Buffalo Police to the Border Patrol, held for over one year before being released to die alone unannounced in a freezing cold parking lot. His crime? Needing help finding his way home. Many are to blame. Many need to be held accountable.
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This is so awful. He would have been in such pain.
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this is standard operating procedure for the iceholes terrorizing minnesota.
this has happened at least a dozen times here.
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Ice body count keeps growing
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at this point it’s pretty clear to me that our body count will be a vast under-representation of the lives lost to ICE

There will always be more unaccounted for than we hear about because they try to hide shit

Sometimes they’ll succeed in their cover up efforts and we will never know😔
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So awful and terrible 💔💔💔
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We KNOW!
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Thank you for your reporting.
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Great now its time to arrest and prosecute his murders.
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This does not mean there will be any immediate arrests. Local officials made it clear that this is a medical determination. But, one could argue it's a step in that direction.
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“In light of this determination, DHS must fully cooperate with New York State Attorney General James, and newly-confirmed DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin must order an independent and transparent investigation,” @reptimkennedy.bsky.social said in a press release.
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Colonial homicide determination alao did not prompt arrests in the killing of 12 yr old camper by Trails Carolina Wilderness Therapy

How does that work exactly?

These people are killed, not 'died', but killed by deliberate human action

And everyone walks away without consequences

Ethics dilemma
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Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists we need to be worried about not someone from another country. This regime finds joy in harming and killing others...on your dime
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