America’s enduring appetite for Trump's deportation cruelty
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By Chauncey Devega
Published on March 3, 2026.
The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, was found on a street in Buffalo, New York, on Feb. 26. Alam had been detained for nearly a year in the Erie County jail and released on a misdemeanor plea deal after being arrested for a minor altercation with police. He was found dead alone with no shoes, only the orange booties given to him at a detention center. Despite this, the death is part of a larger pattern of inhumane treatment and violations of human and civil rights violations at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol detention centers across the country. There are also reports of mistreatment of children and other vulnerable people, including military veterans, college students, and members of the LGBTQ community. Despite the drop in Trump's approval ratings, there are still millions of Americans still support the administration's deportation policies.
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