After being held in detention in Texas for months during his legal fight to remain in the U.S., Afghan soldier Abdul Wasi Safi is now a free man as he works to secure asylum in America.
Abdul Wasi Safi smiles after a news conference Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, in Houston. Wasi Safi, an intelligence officer for the Afghan National Security Forces who fled Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. forces, was freed this week and reunited with his brother after spending months in immigration detention. – In the months he was held in detention in Texas during his legal fight to remain in the U.S.
Amid hugs from his brother and lawyers, Wasi Safi proudly smiled as he received an award from one of his supporters — Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Houston — that honored his military service to the U.S. He said he hoped that would be a harbinger of things to come for him in his new life in the United States.
For the past few months, Wasi Safi, 27, had been jailed by federal authorities after being arrested while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in September near Eagle Pass, Texas.the withdrawal of U.S. forces in August 2021 Wasi Safi had been facing a federal immigrant charge. But a judge on Monday dropped the count at the request of prosecutors. Hein Eden, Texas, on Wednesday and was reunited with his brother, Sami-ullah Safi, 29, who goes by Sami and lives in Houston.
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