A disabled U.S. Army veteran spent 124 days in ICE detention.

Let that sink in.

Zahid Chaudhry served in the United States Army, earned multiple service medals, and was one interview and a ceremony away from becoming a U.S. citizen.

Instead, he was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and held inside a detention center in Tacoma for more than four months.

Chaudhry is wheelchair-bound after a training injury while preparing for deployment to Iraq.

His wife is a U.S. citizen.
His children are U.S. citizens.

And still — he ended up in detention.

A federal judge eventually ruled that he had been wrongfully detained, and he’s now back home waiting for his case to move forward.

But the bigger question remains:

If someone who served the country can be detained like this…

what does that say about the system?

Story reported by Sharon Yoo.