Lawmakers urge DHS to cooperate with investigation into refugee's death

Democratic lawmakers, including Congressman Tim Kennedy and Bennie Thompson, are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security cooperate with Erie County law enforcement. The investigation concerns the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee. Reports state border agents abandoned him outside a closed coffee shop during a freezing night in Buffalo on February 19. Lawmakers are now urging the DHS to release all relevant records to assist the ongoing investigation into the incident.