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Fathers' journey ends in tragic homicide

On a frigid February morning, Mohamad Faisal Nurul Amin's Family gathered to welcome home his long-separated father, Nurul Shah Alam. But instead of embracing his husband after months apart, Fatima Abdul Roshid found her 56-year-old spouse lying lifeless just four miles from where U.S. Customs had unceremoniously dropped him.

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Alam's journey under the harsh lights of border control

Shah Alam's odyssey began with a wrong turn in Buffalo, New York, where he, a blind man, had wandered into a resident's yard and was arrested after being mistaken for an intruder. Detained for months, he was finally cleared to enter the country, only to meet a gruesome end just hours before being released.