Some call the arrest of former US army sergeant Bajun Mavalwalla II “shameful” and “un-American”. The 11 June protest against Ice that led to Mavalwalla’s arrest was confrontational, leaving a government van’s windshield smashed and tires slashed, but Mavalwalla was not among the more than two dozen people arrested at the scene. A one-minute video posted on Instagram shows the army veteran briefly jostle with an officer whose face is covered by a ski mask and sunglasses. VanDiver said that despite Mavalwalla’s arrest, #AfghanEvac would press ahead with a plan to have veterans accompany Afghan allies to immigration hearings, a program launched earlier this year after Ice detained Afghan refugees at court appearances in California and Massachusetts. “If they go after a combat veteran with a veteran father, it becomes easier to go after everyone else.