Sayed Naser Noori, who claims he worked as a U.S. military interpreter, a claim which has not been independently corroborated, was placed into expedited removal after DHS revoked his parole.Three Afghan nationals connected to U.S. military service have become national news stories since mid-2025: Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, who died in ICE custody in Dallas; Zia S., who was detained in Connecticut and later released; and Sayed Naser Noori, who was detained in San Diego and later released by court order.Coverage of all three has centered on their service records and framed each detention as a betrayal of a wartime ally, while minimizing or omitting details that complicate that narrative. The cases of Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal and Zia were covered in The Gateway Pundit on July 9 and July 11, respectively. This article focuses on Noori, who was arrested on June 12, 2025, at his first asylum hearing in San Diego.Noori arrived at the San Ysidro Port of Entry on July 5, 2024, for a CBP One appointment without a Special Immigrant Visa, lawful permanent resident status, or approved refugee status. He did not possess a valid entry document.After reviewing his lack of criminal history and documentation from Afghanistan, a CBP officer paroled him into the United States pending Section 240 removal proceedings. He was granted humanitarian parole, a temporary status that is not a pathway to citizenship.In his asylum filings, Noori stated that he had worked as a civilian interpreter for the U.S. military from 2015 to 2018 and that he and his brothers operated a logistics company providing anti-mining support to U.S. forces.Noori claims that Taliban fighters killed his brother and abducted his father at a family wedding in 2023, driving him from the country. This account is drawn solely from his own asylum filings and has not been independently corroborated by outside reporting, witnesses, or third-party documentation.The underlying habeas petition filed in federal court further contradicts the account: it states the killing and detention occurred in September 2021, following the Taliban’s August 2021 takeover of Kabul, and makes no mention of a wedding. The discrepancy between the 2021 date in the court filing and the 2023 date in his asylum application has not been reconciled in the available records.On April 11, 2025, DHS revoked Noori’s humanitarian parole through an automated notification system. He was not detained at that time and continued to comply with ICE check-ins. On June 12, 2025, during a routine immigration court hearing, government counsel moved to dismiss his original Notice to Appear as “improvidently issued,” without explaining the basis for that determination.ICE personnel took Noori into custody immediately after the hearing and placed him in expedited removal proceedings under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1), which permits deportation processing without a standard immigration court bond hearing. The dismissal of his Notice to Appear was an administrative action, not a criminal charge or conviction.DHS classified him as an inadmissible noncitizen subject to expedited removal under this provision, and specifically argued he was detained under § 1225(b)(1)(B)(ii), which they said does not entitle him to a determination by a court on release or a bond hearing before an immigration judge.DHS also invoked its expanded January 2025 designation authorizing expedited removal to the “full scope of its statutory authority” against noncitizens encountered more than 100 air miles from the border who had been continuously present for at least 14 days but less than two years.DHS publicly stated that Noori was an “unvetted illegal alien” from a “high-threat country,” with nothing in his immigration records indicating that he had assisted the U.S. government. His legal team and an Afghan advocacy group disputed that characterization, citing contracting and employment records they said substantiated his claim of having worked with U.S. forces. Those records were reviewed by a local news outlet but have not been authenticated by the court.Because Noori remained in mandatory ICE detention, his legal team filed an emergency petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The dispute centered on the timing and method DHS used to terminate his parole.His attorneys argued that, after living in the United States for more than a year under parole and holding valid work authorization, Noori had acquired procedural due-process protections that barred the government from summarily detaining him and placing him on an expedited removal track without individualized notice.On September 26, 2025, Judge Curiel granted the habeas petition in part, ruling on procedural and constitutional grounds rather than on the merits of Noori’s underlying right to remain in the country. The court identified two defects.First, DHS could not lawfully place Noori in expedited removal on June 12 because his original Section 240 proceedings were still pending and had not yet been formally dismissed.Second, DHS’s use of a mass automated notification system to revoke his parole failed to satisfy 8 C.F.R. § 212.5(e), which requires individualized written notice and an explanation before humanitarian parole may be terminated.As a remedy, Judge Curiel ordered Noori’s immediate release from the Otay Mesa Detention Center, restored him to his original parole status, and barred ICE from re-detaining him during the pendency of his removal proceedings without prior approval from the court.The court’s order did not grant Noori permanent residency, citizenship, or a permanent right to remain in the United States, nor does it guarantee his asylum claim will be granted. Instead, it restored him to his original temporary humanitarian parole. He remains in the United States under that status while his asylum claim and Special Immigrant Visa application continue through the normal administrative process, with no assurance of the outcome.The post Afghan Man’s Unverified Military Claim at Center of Federal Court Fight Over His Detention appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.