Katie Honan
Talukder came to the United States in the 1980s, when he was still a teenager, and qualified for the late amnesty program for green cards in 1990, he said. He later filed for asylum after receiving death threats from the Jamaat Islami Party, a fundamentalist party, while visiting Bangladesh, he said.
Riaz Talukder has two sons, a wife battling cancer and more than one potential route to become a legal permanent resident. But after years of ICE check-ins, he’s been told to come to the next one ready to return to Bangladesh.
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