Another Media Hoax: Border Patrol Blamed for Unrelated Death
“The DHS agents who callously abandoned Nurul Amin Shah Alam must be investigated for criminally negligent homicide, at minimum.”
If there is one thing the corporate media and Democrats love to do, it’s to latch on to an unverified and very likely half-baked story of an illegal immigrant’s time in the custody of immigration enforcement agents to try to prove a point about how allegedly unsatisfactory conditions are wherever the person or persons are being held.
But now, in a new twist, they’re being blamed for the death of a person who was not in an illegal and who was not in their custody at the time of his death, with at least one high-profile Democratic lawmaker claiming DHS should be “investigated for criminally negligent homicide, at minimum.”
The Washington Post kicked things off with this tweet, where they tried to make it sound like the border patrol dumped a half-blind refugee/former detainee in the middle of nowhere and left him to die:
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56-year-old partially blind Rohingya refugee who spoke little English, was found dead Tuesday in Buffalo, about five miles from where Border Patrol agents had dropped him off after they picked him up from county jail. https://t.co/4X1eNCnAvB pic.twitter.com/vrKSEdvTzT
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 27, 2026
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) pounced and seized on the story, suggesting the agents at the center of the story could be guilty of “criminally negligent homicide, at minimum”:
The DHS agents who callously abandoned Nurul Amin Shah Alam must be investigated for criminally negligent homicide, at minimum.
Every single person responsible for this tragic and preventable death will be held accountable. pic.twitter.com/mFV3th9puJ
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) February 27, 2026
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee, was found dead after Border Patrol abandoned him miles away from his home and without notifying his family or attorney.
This is absolutely horrifying — and completely preventable. There must be a full investigation immediately. pic.twitter.com/57QJrNWkNP
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) February 26, 2026
Multiple other Democrat officials in New York state, including Gov. Kathy Hochul, are also demanding an investigation.
And naturally, leftist influencers are deliberately distorting the story even more:
SAY HIS NAME: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
Trump's immigration officials picked up a blind refugee, who walked with a walking stick last week in Buffalo.
Then, after realizing he couldn't be deported, they dumped him five miles from his home in the freezing cold. He died trying to… pic.twitter.com/9xPIm78rOQ
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 26, 2026
That tweet has 17,000 retweets as of this writing.
It is not until one digs deep into the story at The Washington Post that they learn the circumstances surrounding why Nurul Amin Shah Alam was dropped off at that coffee shop by border patrol agents and why he was not in their custody that long to begin with:
Shah Alam was a member of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority. He arrived in the United States as a refugee in December 2024, according to a spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection. In February 2025, he was arrested during an incident where police said he trespassed in a woman’s backyard and bit two responding officers after they fired Tasers at him.
Bail was originally set at $25,000, then lowered to $5,000 in June, authorities said. Earlier this month, Shah Alam pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors and was scheduled to be sentenced in March. The district attorney said the reduced plea in Shah Alam’s case was “in the interest of justice,” noting that a felony conviction would have meant mandatory deportation.
On Feb. 19, bond was posted for Shah Alam, a spokesman for the Erie County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. The sheriff’s office informed Border Patrol that Shah Alam was about to be released, it said, which it described as standard practice in cases where an agency has issued an immigration detainer. Border Patrol then took custody of Shah Alam, the sheriff’s office said.
But Border Patrol agents found that Shah Alam was not deportable, the agency spokesperson said. They offered him a “courtesy ride, which he chose to accept to a coffee shop, determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address,” rather than be released from a Border Patrol station. Shah Alam showed “no signs of distress, mobility issues, or disabilities requiring special assistance,” the spokesperson said.
In response to the WaPo’s tweet, DHS shared the following response:
This individual was arrested by local police.
This individual accepted a courtesy ride from Border Patrol to this location, a ride that did not have to be provided.
Would the Washington Post have rather us force him to find transportation from the station after his arrest by local police?
This individual tragically died almost a week after this courtesy ride. It is ridiculous to blame Border Patrol for an individual’s death a week after their last interaction with them.
They also pushed back on Jeffries’ X post:
Another hoax being peddled by the media and sanctuary politicians to demonize our law enforcement. This death had NOTHING to do Border Patrol.
Mr. Shah Alam passed almost A WEEK AFTER he was released by Border Patrol — he also had a serial violent criminal rap sheet.
Mr. Shah Alam’s criminal history included charges for assaulting a first responder with intent to cause injury, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing with a weapon, resisting arrest, criminal trespass, and obstructing governmental administration.
We truly don’t despise the mainstream media enough.
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The Dems know the old saying is true that the Truth is just putting on his shoes when the lie is half way around the world. They use with this system daily thanks to their partners in the msm.
Sounds mentally ill TBH.
This is all Democrats have, hoaxes and lies 🙄
“to try to prove a point about how allegedly unsatisfactory conditions are wherever the person or persons are being held.”
Democrats are so solicitous!
Now let’s talk about the J6 Gulag…
You wrote, “We truly don’t despise the mainstream media enough.”
They are simply the propaganda arm of the Dem-wingers. A somewhat more accurate statement would be, “We truly don’t despise the Dem-wingers like the media, Jeffries, Jayapal, and Krassenstein enough.”
Thrift store Obama is an idiot and a DEI pick by Nasty Pelosi only.
Given the number of encounters even if this was somehow the ‘fault’ of ICE it is striking how few of the encounters are able to be temporarily spun into something out of nothing. Here they dropped the guy at the destination he wanted. That he later died ain’t on ICE anymore than it would be on a taxi service.
Temu Obama getting it done to placate the crazy base ahead of elections.