VIDEO: Masked ICE Agents Arrest Afghan Ally Following Immigration Court Hearing
In a video that has flooded the internet, Afghan ally Sayed Naser was arrested and put in handcuffs by two masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents following his June 12 hearing at a San Diego Courthouse.
“What’s your name?” the agents asked.
“I work for the U.S. military back in my home country. I have all the documents….I was [an] interpreter,” Naser explains, turning to a group filming the incident and continuing to speak calmly about his situation as ICE agents led him down a hallway and into an elevator with his lawyer, Brian McGoldrick.
McGoldrick told members of the press that the incident was only captured thanks to volunteers who gather daily outside the San Diego courthouse and “wait in the hallway along with all the ICE agents to video what’s happening.”
McGoldrick also said that prior to his client’s arrest, the day held another difficult surprise for Naser when the counsel for the U.S. government motioned to have his asylum case dismissed on the grounds that his notice to appear had been “improvidently issued.”
When the judge asked him to respond to the government’s motion, McGoldrick says he requested the government “tell us what was improvident.”
The government counsel responded, “We don’t have to explain why it’s improvident. We just have to make the allegation.”
The judge has given McGoldri
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