Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol is dead
Source: Investigative Post
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead.
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Shah Alam, a Rohingya refugee, had been missing since February 19. He was released that afternoon from custody at the Erie County Holding Center after posting bail. In response to an immigration detainer that had been placed on him, the Erie County Sheriffs Office contacted U.S. Border Patrol prior to his release, according to spokesperson Christopher Horvatits.
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After taking custody of Shah Alam, Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Tim Hortons on Niagara Street in the Black Rock neighborhood, Macaluso said, shortly after 8 p.m. Shah Alam and his family live in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood on the East Side, according to Fazal.
Neither he nor Shah Alams family were notified of his release. Macaluso previously told Investigative Post he expected Shah Alam to be taken to the ICE detention center in Batavia and that his client would be released from there.
Read more: https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/
This dates back to February 2025:
The woman called the police, and when Shah Alam did not follow police commands to drop his curtain rod, they tasered and beat him, his attorney said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/border-patrol-refugee-buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. The preventable death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam is deeply disturbing and a dereliction of duty by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
A vulnerable man nearly blind and unable to speak English was left alone on a cold winter night with no known attempt to leave him in a safe, secure location. That decision from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was unprofessional and inhumane.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection must answer for how and why this happened.
Buffalo is a city that welcomes refugees and believes government should protect human dignity, not endanger it. U.S. Customs and Border Protection failed that basic standard.
https://www.buffalony.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/1614
So after a year in custody, he's "released" - but taken by CBP to a place he doesn't know, in a vicious Buffalo winter, and no-one who knows him is notified. He doesn't speak English, and is basically blind.
This is the CBP equivalent of abandoning someone on an icefloe, or a newborn child on a hillside.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,724 posts)wnylib
(25,517 posts)Whyisthisstillclose
(592 posts)I am sure we are only hearing a fraction of the horror stories this administration is facilitating. Our government is no better than a common crime ring.
montanacowboy
(6,696 posts)That poor man - I hope his family sues the hell out of them.
BaronChocula
(4,332 posts)Grounds for some legal back and forth.
mzmolly
(52,744 posts)mysteryowl
(9,108 posts)moonshinegnomie
(3,967 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(2,400 posts)slightlv
(7,650 posts)disbanded in its current form, but every single individual who has drawn a paycheck from them needs to be cited, arrested, tried, and convicted for crimes against humanity. We can't just release these same people into the general population. They have a track record now of hostility and getting away with it. You think they won't just do it on their own when the departments go belly up? And they'll concentrate on the same individuals they do now -- anyone who's skin isn't lily white or who doesn't have a penis.
Martin68
(27,451 posts)FakeNoose
(41,081 posts)They also mention Erie, but that could be PA or NY, or somewhere else.
RazorbackExpat
(922 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,483 posts)Criminal Gestapo fuckers!
Bayard
(29,200 posts)"the cause of death was determined by the medical examiner to be health related in nature, ruling out death by exposure and homicide."
Its pretty obvious the man froze to death after being abandoned in a Buffalo winter.
SomewhereInTheMiddle
(642 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 26, 2026, 04:30 AM - Edit history (2)
Or he got really sick in jail and they turfed him out rather than have him die in custody. Or he was weak from mistreatment, and he was released with no money or phone, and died of dehydration.
There could be many ways the coroner was correct but the Regime is still at fault.
SunSeeker
(58,100 posts)Murderers.
travelingthrulife
(4,998 posts)made their arrest quota for the day.
wolfie001
(7,477 posts)That's what got him tazed by these racist nazi thugs. One of the more horrid stories from America's Racist Debacle 2026. Thanks to the disgusting fat orange imbecile.
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