He was detained at his immigration hearing.

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.”

ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.

Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military. pic.twitter.com/4dIxRgzEqJ

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) June 13, 2025

Deport! Deport! Deport! But not this guy. He has done more to help America than 99.9999% of Americans. Now we are going to reward him by sending him back to a country where he's dead on arrival. That ain't right.

Edit to add a little more information from what's available. He sought asylum at the San Ysidro Port of Entry where authorities granted him temporary parole. Before his arrest he was pursuing a Special Immigrant Visa which is pathway for Afghan nationals who worked with U.S. forces.
https://www.newsbreak.com/san-diego-post-314653203/4052094981308-afghan-interpreter-detained-by-ice-in-california-courthouse-sparking-outrage-and-fear

Perhaps now they know about him and will treat him accordingly

B-1 83 said:

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Perhaps now they know about him and will treat him accordingly

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I'm sure ICE has the resources to find out all they need within a few days and treat him favorably or not, but at least with all the facts. Unless they've done their research before they went to get him, then sucks to be him.

samurai_science said:

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B-1 83 said:

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Perhaps now they know about him and will treat him accordingly

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Or it's bull crap

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That's part of "knowing about him" and "treating him accordingly". I suspect many of these "interpreters" will be outed. I worded it that way on purpose.

Allies are always important, but make no mistake - people don't help our military because they like us.

People generally help us because our enemy is their enemy.

Something is missing from this story.

Why wasn't he here legally? If not here on a valid visa, why was his asylum claim denied?

My Uber driver a few months ago was a former Iraqi helicopter pilot that served as an interpreter, but I presume he came here legally.

If he's not here legally he needs to be deported. If not back to his home country then we should find him a country that will not kill him.

People said the same "who will work with the US" when we left real terps in Afghanistan. What about those folks and their families? That's been memory holed now.

It has been extremely difficult to get interpreters over here legally and its not like he walked over here. Whoever he is likely came illegally or overstayed his visa.

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Something is missing from this story.

Why wasn't he here legally? If not here on a valid visa, why was his asylum claim denied?

My Uber driver a few months ago was a former Iraqi helicopter pilot that served as an interpreter, but I presume he came here legally.

If he's not here legally he needs to be deported. If not back to his home country then we should find him a country that will not kill him.

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He was probably one of the ones given the temporary status by the Biden admin without checking his background and now he's claiming to be an interpreter

samurai_science said:

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Yeah, that's a common tactic to claim to be an interpreter.

The real question is how many of them had sex with young boys cause that also is a predominant feature of Afghanistan culture.

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I'm sure they had a reason.

48 hour rule.

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samurai_science said:

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Yeah, that's a common tactic to claim to be an interpreter.

The real question is how many of them had sex with young boys cause that also is a predominant feature of Afghanistan culture.

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I'm sure they had a reason.

48 hour rule.

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He's eligible for deportation that's the only reason they need and that's the only reason I care about

Over 200,000 Afghan nationals entered the US after the fall of Kabul and that fiasco at the airport. These hajis arrived through various pathways, including humanitarian parole, special immigrant visas (SIVs), and other forms of immigration relief the Biden administration pulled out of their hat to flood our country with terrorists. They were evacuated during Operation Allies Welcome, while another 100,000 arrived through so called refugee resettlement efforts.

That's a lot of interpreters.

lb3 said:

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Something is missing from this story.

Why wasn't he here legally? If not here on a valid visa, why was his asylum claim denied?

My Uber driver a few months ago was a former Iraqi helicopter pilot that served as an interpreter, but I presume he came here legally.

If he's not here legally he needs to be deported. If not back to his home country then we should find him a country that will not kill him.

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He was here legally. He came through a legal port of entry and asked for asylum. He was granted temporary parol here until that claim could be heard, and he was already in the process of applying for a special immigrant visa, which is what Afghan interpreters are supposed to do.

This all probably hinges on the fact that Trump ended Temporary Protected Status for asylum seekers, including Afghan interpreters, in order to expedite deportations. That status expired in May, so that is probably why he had the master calendar hearing. The position of the government seems to be that he should go back to Afghanistan while his asylum and visa case is heard here, which seems stupid given the circumstances.

The judge denied the government's request to dismiss his case and scheduled a hearing to go over the merits of his claims and why the government thinks he should be denied and deported. Then ICE agents arrested him. That merits hearing would seem to be the time and place for them to present some kind of evidence or argument on why he should be barred from staying while his case is pending, but they apparently don't want to even go that far.

Honestly, I didn't think it's a stretch that he is telling the truth and bureaucrats are just rubber stamping everything in sight. ****ing things up and screwing people over is just about par for the course no matter what they're doing.


https://timesofsandiego.com/military/2025/06/12/afghani-who-aided-u-s-army-detained-by-ice-in-san-diego-immigration-court/

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He was at the courthouse for a master calendar hearing the first stage of a removal proceeding in immigration court. Not attending a master calendar hearing is grounds for deportation.

The federal government made a motion to dismiss his case, according to his attorney Brian McGoldrick. The motion was not granted by the judge, who instead scheduled a merits hearing or the main hearing in which the government and respondents present their arguments for or against being deported for a few months from now.

Footage reviewed by Times of San Diego shows what happened next as McGoldrick and his client came upon authorities with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Two masked agents wearing jackets that said "Police ICE" waiting in a courthouse hallway asked McGoldrick for documentation or a court order, which he did not provide.

"Yeah, get him," said one unidentified agent to another. "Take him. Go ahead, take him."

Both ICE agents held McGoldrick's client, after which they repeatedly asked him for his name. Neither McGoldrick nor the client complied with their requests.

McGoldrick requested anonymity for the man for safety reasons and because, post-detention, he hadn't been allowed to consult with his client.

Despite handcuffing the man, ICE agents did not provide a warrant for the arrest. After repeated requests from observers to do so, they stated that they would show the warrant "in the elevator."

McGoldrick said that he was only able to view a copy of the warrant after his client was placed in a secure detention area. The warrant, according to McGoldrick, only bore his client's name.

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If I remember correctly, wasn't the plan under Trump evacuation of Afghanistan was to relocate the good people in Afghanistan that helped out the troops to another country in the Middle East and not bring them back to the United States or am I misremembering. I thought that was Trump's plan and Biden pulled a switcheroo and started pumping them into the United States as fast as he could.

Thanks for the explanation.

Just a personal experience but I just assume shoot the first interpreter we had than let him into the US. The guy led us to his personal enemies on numerous occasions. That was when he wasn't drunk and eating all of our food.

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If I remember correctly, wasn't the plan under Trump evacuation of Afghanistan was to relocate the good people in Afghanistan that helped out the troops to another country in the Middle East and not bring them back to the United States or am I misremembering. I thought that was Trump's plan and Biden pulled a switcheroo and started pumping them into the United States as fast as he could.

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I don't think there ever was a Trump plan because there was no pull out plan or refugee plan in place with anyone at the State Department. I don't think there were any appointee holdovers, but none of the career people had anything lined up. Trump made an agreement with the Taliban to leave Afghanistan, but that was like 8 months after he left office and wasn't going to be his problem after November. If the plan was ever to relocate people across the ME, that would have been the time to do it, not the months leading up to the deadline when you're under the gun. It shouldn't be signed, sealed, and delivered by January 2021, not left up to the next admin to negotiate immediately.

The Biden admin had an unrealistic plan to hand over control and pull out (didn't seem to be a huge priority), but it all went to ****. They were told repeatedly by a lot of people to plan for getting interpreters and their families out immediately, but they drug their feet, seemingly assuming they would have the time and opportunity to go forward with regular application processes.

Their solution when it became painfully obvious that want going to work was to just evacuate as many people as they could and admit pretty much everyone, then sort it out here.

He is lucky biden didn't kill him and his family.

Overwhelmingly amount of terps were abandoned and left for dead by the former administration. Terps that actually made it to the states, the government knows who and where they are.

samurai_science said:

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Yeah, that's a common tactic to claim to be an interpreter.

The real question is how many of them had sex with young boys cause that also is a predominant feature of Afghanistan culture.

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I was over there about 15 years ago.

The term "Chai boys" still sends shivers down my spine. Witnessed a lot of that nonsense first hand.

Bacha bazi

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I don't think there ever was a Trump plan because there was no pull out plan or refugee plan in place with anyone at the State Department. I don't think there were any appointee holdovers, but none of the career people had anything lined up. Trump made an agreement with the Taliban to leave Afghanistan, but that was like 8 months after he left office and wasn't going to be his problem after November.

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Believe there were conditions that Taliban had to meet to initiate the withdrawl and the Taliban never met those conditions. Biden, or whoever was controlling him, just unilaterally decided an arbitrary date to withdraw from Afghanistan.

usmcbrooks said:

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Overwhelmingly amount of terps were abandoned and left for dead by the former administration. Terps that actually made it to the states, the government knows who and where they are.

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Yeah I would think it would be very easy, even for our federal government, to look up these guys, when legit.

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samurai_science said:

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Yeah, that's a common tactic to claim to be an interpreter.

The real question is how many of them had sex with young boys cause that also is a predominant feature of Afghanistan culture.

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I was over there about 15 years ago.

The term "Chai boys" still sends shivers down my spine. Witnessed a lot of that nonsense first hand.

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I know we were reporting it up the chain of command as early as 2008. No sugarcoating.

Not a ****ing peep back.

Pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but if I ever meet the first terp we had on my second tour again, I will gladly beat him to death with a brick in public and damn the consequences.

Being a terp is not a get out of jail free card. Some were great and cared. For every one of those you had at least two turds that were using us for cash and to exploit the Americans against local people they hated. And at least one active double agent essentially.

He had applied for a special visa before getting to the border and claiming asylum at a legal point of entry. He did what was required of him to make an asylum claim.

In my opinion this is one of those cases where the asylum claim needs to be adjudicated through due process and him not just blanketly deported. People seeking asylum from Central and South America are mostly just gaming the system. This guy, at least on the surface, appears to have a more legitimate looking claim that that needs to be meted out in hearings.

I'm sure US personnel who worked with him would be able to remember him and the type of person he was if in fact he was an interpreter.

Gotta go back!

The only thing afghans are good at is guilt tripping/shaming you into submission.

Other than that, low IQ morons.

Seems the vetting process or asylum cases for interpreters could/would require 4 or 5 American veterans to vouch for these guys and serve as references to their character. Who would know them better?

It would be a horrible thing to send some of them back if they are truly the good guys, and I know at least some of them are (so I hear, I was not there and appreciate those of you who served in the ME).

Eliminatus said:

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Jack Ruby said:

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samurai_science said:

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Yeah, that's a common tactic to claim to be an interpreter.

The real question is how many of them had sex with young boys cause that also is a predominant feature of Afghanistan culture.

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I was over there about 15 years ago.

The term "Chai boys" still sends shivers down my spine. Witnessed a lot of that nonsense first hand.

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I know we were reporting it up the chain of command as early as 2008. No sugarcoating.

Not a ****ing peep back.

Pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but if I ever meet the first terp we had on my second tour again, I will gladly beat him to death with a brick in public and damn the consequences.

Being a terp is not a get out of jail free card. Some were great and cared. For every one of those you had at least two turds that were using us for cash and to exploit the Americans against local people they hated. And at least one active double agent essentially.

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This,100%. A friend of mine was KIA May 12, 2011, by what was essentially a double agent.

You have to go back