Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family
An Afghan man who fought with U.S. forces and was legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul died this week within a day of being arrested by federal immigration officers in Texas, according to his family.
The reported death would be at least the 24th in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this fiscal year, which began in October. The administration is on track for the deadliest year in ICE detention in more than two decades.
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, was preparing to drive his kids to school in the Dallas area on Friday when agents in unmarked vehicles allegedly surrounded him and arrested him in front of his children.
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Historically soldiers were treated like shit and were poorly paid if at all, and after their service they were just forgotten and not cared for.
The generation that fought WW2 had it best of all but it was far from the norm.
The parents of the generation that fought in World War 2, who themselves fought in World War 1, struggled to get paid for actually fighting, like they were promised.
When those WW1 veterans and their families organized a protest encampment in DC to demand that they be paid the money they were owed, the military was sent in to violently break up the encampment, with cavalry and tanks.
Yes! That one was a big fucking deal. But just look at how soldiers and sailors were treated before then. There is a joke about the UK that ‘the flavor of the food and the beauty of the women of England drove many men to sea’ implying that Britain became a maritime empire because their food sucked (not historically true) and their women were ugly. In reality it was proto-capitalism… they would press gang sailors and force them to join the navy or the merchant marine when they needed more sailors. They literally could just walk into a pub or any public place, see any man they liked, and take them. It was like an extreme draft board.
As for the pay those sailors got? Much of the time it was so incredibly pathetic AND the same sailors were charged for their own necessities, meaning they got even less than advertised (if anything at all, and in many cases they owed the navy/merchant marine money). Going back even farther to the middle ages and prior, what was the primary motivator for people to become soldiers and go to some far away place to fight someone who didn’t even know existed? Plunder. That was it. In Ancient Rome plunder was quite accepted for individual soldiers even if it was forbidden at times, and divvying up what was stolen was also critical to maintain morale. In Medieval Europe it was the same. Even in the Middle East and East Asia that was a very important motivator since many people who joined were just dirt poor and this was their best (if not only) shot at making some amount of money.
Switzerland today is a very rich country, but once upon a time it was one of the poorest places in Europe, and this is why Swiss mercenary armies became so common and so popular for a long time (the only extent Swiss Guard is the Vatican Swiss Guard, but many royals used to have Swiss Guards in the past). When the early Muslims were expanding in the 7th and 8th centuries, they would tell many people to come and join the conquest because it will enrich them in the world and let them go to heaven. The same thing happened in the Crusades when they were promised salvation in addition to plunder.