Afghan special forces commando seeking asylum gets caught in broken US immigration system The Taliban had his biometric data, left behind by the U.S. government, and they were hunting him. Now, Wasi sits in a U.S. Texas prison facing deportation to Kabul and certain death, a poster child for America's broken asylum system. Afghan special forces commando seeking asylum gets caught in broken US immigration system, Jennifer Griffin, Liz Friden, December 15, 2022, FoxNews What could possibly go wrong with giving government your biometric data? Well this story shows that. If some of these former Afghan commandos decided to get together and try to kill Biden, it wouldn't be that surprising. The U.S. has sold them down the river. They're dead men anyway, have nowhere to go. The only reason the Taliban knows who they are is because the U.S. took their data and then let it fall into the hands of the Taliban. They fought for the U.S., but then the U.S. pulled out and abandoned them. Why would allies in other countries ever want to fight alongside the U.S. again?
Latest update as of January 24, 2023: The criminal charges for illegal entry were dropped after months of publicity and a bipartisan congressional effort to free him. Wasi remains in border patrol custody but can now restart the application process for asylum application, according to his attorneys. He hopes to be released and reunited with his brother in Houston.Feds drop charges against Afghan soldier trying to claim asylum in Texas | The Texas Tribune If he does not get granted asylum, he will be deported, probably back to Afghanistan, where it would be likely he would be executed.
update: He has finally been granted asylum. An Afghan soldier who fled the Taliban and traveled through nearly a dozen countries before being arrested at the Texas-Mexico border and detained for months has been granted asylum, allowing him to remain in the United States, his brother said Wednesday. Abdul Wasi Safi, 27, is one of tens of thousands of Afghan citizens who fled to the U.S. following the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan in August 2021. The soldier, called Wasi by family and friends, and his older brother, Sami Safi, worried that if Wasi Safi wasn't granted asylum, he could be sent back to Afghanistan, where he would likely be killed by the Taliban because he had worked with the U.S. military. Afghan soldier who was arrested at U.S.-Mexico border after fleeing Taliban is granted asylum, Associated Press Texas, Spectrum News 1, September 13, 2023
