"it is not normal for a healthy 41-year-old man 💥to die within a day of being taken into government custody,” Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran and founding president of AfghanEvac, a group that advocates for refugees said in an email to reporters on Monday. On March 13, multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in unmarked vehicles surrounded Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal in front of his home in Texas as he prepared to drive his children to school. The 41-year-old father of six children, who had served alongside the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan, 🔥died in ICE custody the next day, leaving his family in shock, and U.S. veterans of prior Middle East wars outraged. According to a statement issued by ICE, Paktyawal was transported to a hospital on March 13 after complaining of shortness of breath and chest pains. Paktyawal’s wife says she told officers during the arrest that he uses a rescue inhaler for asthma, but his death the following day remains under investigation. Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran and founding president of AfghanEvac, a group that advocates for refugees of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, said Paktyawal was healthy before ICE agents arrested him in front of his children on a school day. “Mr. Paktyawal survived our war in Afghanistan and trusted the United States enough to rebuild his life here.”VanDiver said https://truthout.org/articles/afghanistan-war-veteran-dies-in-ice-custody-infuriating-us-veterans/