Afghan soldier arrested at border while seeking asylum has new lawyers, meets with FBI

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Abdul Wasi Safi, an Afghan soldier who was arrested and detained after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, now has a new legal team. Wasi's mental and physical health appear to be deteriorating as waits at a detention center.

, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.hopes fresh cooperation with the U.S. government will lead to his eventual release and asylum.

“We’re five days into this, and we’re going to work with this process to try to get it back on track and get him on track to asylum in the United States,” said Zachary Fertitta, one of Wasi’s new attorneys. “That process is not a fast process, and we have to engage in it and that’s what we’re doing.

Fertitta, a Houston-based criminal attorney, joins two other attorneys: criminal law attorney Erica Benites Giese in San Antonio and immigration attorney Jennifer Cervantes in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Cervantes said the goal is to have those charges cleared before he begins his immigration asylum hearing.

 

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He must feel so betrayed by the US.

Leftists magically care about afghan refugees now? Where were you in 2021?

This is horrible. Grant him asylum.

This really is a travesty

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