Mastodawn

Upset woman found a blind guy speaking no English on her porch. She called the cops, who Tased and beat him for not dropping his "weapon," a curtain rod he was using as a walking stick. Then they held him for a year in jail. Then when they let him go, Border Patrol picked him up, drove him to a random part of town, and dropped him off in sub-zero temperatures without informing his family. He was missing for days until his frozen body was found by the side of the road.

https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.

A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Investigative Post

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meehawl 3d ago

So it turns out that kidnapping sick, blind people who can't speak English and then dumping them on the street in sub-zero temperatures far away from their home where they freeze to death is actually homicidal.

https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-new-york-refugee-death-482894a96ba31b8945f4186f823c38d2

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meehawl

"His body was found four miles from where Border Patrol had dropped him, without notifying his family or attorneys. He had no warm jacket or shoes, only the orange detention booties issued to him in custody. Temperatures in Buffalo were below freezing."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/buffalo-rohingya-refugee-death-homicide-border-agents

‘It broke our home’: family demands answers after death of man abandoned by US border agents

Nurul Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, was left alone in a Buffalo parking lot. His death has been ruled a homicide – what now?

The Guardian