Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was found dead on Feb. 24 in Buffalo after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop five days earlier during the winter. The immigration agency briefly detained him at a local jail, where he spent about a year on felony charges. He pleaded guilty to two lesser misdemeanor charges prior to his release.
On Wednesday, the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the “manner” of Shah Alam’s death a homicide. He died of complications of a perforated duodenal ulcer “precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration.”
DHS disagreed with that assessment, refusing to take responsibility for the refugee’s death.
“This death had NOTHING to do with 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,” the department posted on X on Thursday before listing his
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