Sometimes in jest, you might hear someone make a suggestion that people go to Mexico and walk across the U.S.-Mexican border, rather than go through the excruciating legal hoops required for entry into America.
Even if you are an American citizen trying to get a new spouse from overseas, or someone’s green card, or a relative being able to reunite with loved ones on our shores, it is all a seemingly endless wade through American bureaucracy.
This from redstate.com.
Such was the case for Ahmad Majeed, a soldier from Afghanistan who helped U.S. troops stationed in his country and who has a sister (who also fled their country) living in Phoenix, Arizona.
Reporter Stephanie Bennett of the local Fox affiliate, KSAZ-TV, exclusively broke the story of the Arizona family’s harrowing (and also maddening) ordeal, when the brother tried to secure a safe escape from the Taliban:
The situation became so dire that his last resort was to head to South America and make the dangerous journey to illegally cross through the U.S.-Mexico border.
Majeed is an intelligence officer for the Afghan National Army Military Air Brigade. He fled, fearing the Taliban would kill him because he had provided information to the U.S. military while also protecting, defending, and working alongside American soldiers.
For more than a year, he said he hid underground and in the mountains applying for emergency visas to several countries, including the U.S.
But the Obiden Regime gave Majeed the cold shoulder. Instead, he got help from Brazil.
He told Bennett and KSAZ-TV while he was still in ICE custody:
I didn’t do any crime. I just saved my life to come here.
Majeed explained:
I did a lot of emails. The only country that replied, it was Brazil, so I don’t have any other option, so that is why I went to Brazil.
From South America, Majeed made the arduous and dangerous trek to the U.S.-Mexico border—and he had to sneak across into Texas, as an illegal alien.
He said he:
Surrendered himself to border patrol agents.
Majeed hoped that since he worked with the U.S., they would take care of him.
Once again, he didn’t receive the care he had expected from the Obiden Department of Homeland Security.
He said:
So I got everything when I come first to America. When I entered from Eagle Pass I had all my original documents to prove that I am an army officer.
Despite having his papers in order, Majeed said he was promptly thrown into detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—and held for months. It’s unclear what the charge was against him, but he says it was a misdemeanor and he pled guilty.
Majeed talked with KSAZ-TV while he was still being held in Texas. In that interview, he explained he wasn’t traveling alone.
Although they were both Afghan military officers with the same background and the exact same charges, the other officer was released a month and a half ahead of Majeed. He was released and his charges were dropped.
Watch Majeed (and his sister Nataly) talk about their family’s story below, courtesy of Fox 10 Phoenix:
Final thoughts: Although this is a story about an illegal border crossing and an illegal alien, it also is a story of the Obiden Regime’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and those Afghans loyal to America that The Regime abandoned.
And this is a story about the world knowing America’s southern border is open for anyone to cross—those possessing good intentions and those otherwise.
God speed to the Take Back of our Constitutional Republic.
