A former supporter of President Donald Trump says he will regret his vote forever after his brother died in ICE custody.

According to an article by The Mirror, Naseer Paktyawal posted a tearful video, first shared by ABC News, describing the loss of his brother Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal and the guilt he carries over voting for Trump.

Paktyawal described the two men as inseparable. "We never call each other a brother," said Paktyawal, who came to the U.S. from Afghanistan. "We call best friends."

His brother served in the U.S. Special Forces in 2005, according to Afghan community leaders and a refugee group, but the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of ICE, claimed it had no record of his service, the Mirror reported. The disputed service record is significant because Afghans who worked alongside U.S. forces were resettled through Special Immigrant Visas and related humanitarian pathways following the 2021 Taliban takeover, and such service claims are frequently documented only partially in U.S. government records.

Paktyawal recounted the arrest outside a Dallas apartment that led to his brother's death. He saw "two cars unmarked. Seven, eight people jump out of those cars," he said. Agents grabbed his brother and placed him in handcuffs in front of his family, Paktyawal said.

Later, Paktyawal received a phone call from an ICE facility. He was told that his brother had died and that his body was left in a hospital parking lot.

"That's the thing that I will never forget in my life," he said.

Paktyawal's brother had been seeking asylum since 2021 and was the 12th person to die in ICE custody in 2026, according to the Mirror. Deaths in ICE custody are tracked in the agency's public reporting, and advocacy groups have long pressed for greater transparency and medical oversight in immigration detention facilities.

Paktyawal voted for Trump after arriving in the U.S. in 2014, and he blamed that choice for his brother's death, the Mirror reported.

"My first vote was for this president, and I regret it, and I'm gonna regret it for the rest of my life," Paktyawal said. "Because of me, because of my voting, he got arrested, and he lost his life. And I'm never going to forgive myself for that."

Paktyawal said he no longer trusts the Trump administration, adding, "I don't believe this administration."