Paramjit Singh arrived in the United States with a green card over 30 years ago, hungry to build a family and his own empire of gas stations in Indiana. Now, he’s in a county jail in Kentucky going blind from a rapidly advancing brain tumor, separated from his family and any advanced medical care. He’s been there for almost two months.

“Last thing I heard from him was, ‘I think I’m just going to give up. I’m never getting out of here,’” his niece, Kirandeep Kaur, told The Intercept. She calls him almost every day, but she said he doesn’t talk much anymore. He’s lost over 20 pounds, his family said, and he fears he will die in detention.

The government’s argument to deport Singh appears to be built on sloppy research. The Department of Homeland Security misclassified him, his lawyer argu

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