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Abdul Wasi Safi talks about the dental treatments he received after a clinic appointment, April 26, 2023, in Houston. The Afghan soldier who fled the Taliban and traveled through nearly a dozen countries before being arrested at the Texas-Mexico border and detained for months has been granted asylum, allowing him to remain in the United States, his brother said Wednesday, Sept. 13. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Afghan soldier who was arrested at U.S.-Mexico border after fleeing Taliban is granted asylum

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Abdul Wasi Safi, right, and his brother Samiullah pick out food for lunch, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Houston. Abdul recently arrived in Houston after being released from a Texas immigration detention center, but has no documentation to allow him to begin a normal life with his brother while he applies for asylum. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

‘Home is like jail’: Afghan soldier who helped the U.S. weathers injuries, uncertainty in asylum bid

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Photographs of Abdul Wasi Safi sit on a table as his brother, Sami-ullah Safi talks about his brother's journey to the U.S. during an interview Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, in Houston. Abdul Wasi Safi was an intelligence officer with the Afghan National Security Forces, providing U.S. armed forces with information for operations against terrorists, said Sami-ulllah Safi. Wasi, as he is called by his family, was arrested after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas in September 2022, and charged with a federal misdemeanor related to wrongly entering the country and placed in a detention center in Central Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Afghan soldier seeks asylum after arrest at U.S.-Mexico border

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press