Teary Trump voters regret after brother who fought with US Special Forces dies in ICE custody
One Trump voter issued a tear-filled video regretting his decision to vote for the president after his brother, who served with U.S. special forces, died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In a video posted to social media, Naseer Paktyawal tearfully recalled his brother’s service to the country and the moment that ICE “kidnapped” him in front of his son, Imrin. ABC News initially posted the video.

“We never call each other a brother. We call best friends,” Paktyawal said. “I talked to my sister-in-law, I was like, what happened exactly? She says, I was standing in front of the door and he opened the car door and told the kids to get in.”
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“I saw two cars unmarked. Seven, eight people jump out of those cars,” Paktyawal said. “One on the driver’s side, one on the back of his car, and grabbed him from his seat and put a handcuff on him.”
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal’s son, Imrin, was also featured in the video and recalled witnessing his father’s arrest. “I was standing there, and then they came and just take him,” the boy said.
Imrin added that he was “standing there” as the agents hauled his father away. “I was like, just don’t take him, please,” Imrin recalled.
According to Paktyawal, he later received a call from an ICE facility. “I thought they were going to release him back,” Imrin said.
“He said, ‘Are you, Naseer?’ That’s me,” Paktyawal said. “Your brother Mohamed Nasir Paktyawal passed away this morning and his body is laying down in a parking lot in the hospital.”
“That’s the thing that I will never forget in my life,” He said. “I came in 2014 with my wife, and I got the visa, and then I just moved into this country.”
Paktyawal said that his brother was the reason why he wanted to work for the federal government and that in the first election he was able to vote in, he cast his vote for President Donald Trump. “I don’t believe this administration,” Paktyawal admitted.
“My first vote was for this president, and I regret it, and I’m gonna regret it for the rest of my life,” he added. “Because of me, because of my voting, He got arrested, and he lost his life. And I’m never going to forgive myself for that.”
CNN reported that he was taken by ICE agents outside of his Dallas apartment and died less than a day after being in ICE custody. His family said that Mohammad had no known health conditions and had been seeking asylum in the U.S. since his arrival in 2021.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that Mohammad’s humanitarian parole had ended last August. In a statement, DHS claimed that Paktyawal had been arrested during a “targeted enforcement operation” but did not report any prior health issues apart from shortness of breath and chest pains during his medical intake exam after his arrest.
DHS spokesperson Lauren Bis reported that ICE had contacted paramedics who transported Paktyawal to a nearby Dallas hospital. Bis reported that on Saturday, Paktyawal’s tongue appeared swollen, and he received an IV drip.
However, his condition continued to deteriorate rapidly, and Mohammad was pronounced dead shortly after 9 a.m. local time after physicians attempted CPR and other efforts to resuscitate him. The Dallas County Medical Examiner has not listed a cause of death or manner of death.
Mohammad is the 12th person to die in ICE custody this year. “They’re saying they took our community member alive to the detention center, and now we are getting the dead body,” Rahmanullah Zazy, a leader in the Dallas-area Afghan community who knew Mohammad and his family.
“We want peace,” Zazy added. Both Zazy and an Afghan refugee group said that Mohammad had served U.S. Special Forces in 2005. However, DHS claimed not to have any record of his service.
