Tirana, Albania (AP) – They helped the US military arrangements against air strikes against Taliban and Islamic state fighters and worked as a driver and translator during the longest war. You should start a modern life in the United States.
Then President Donald Trump gave executive commands that put an end to programs with which Afghans were brought to safety in America. Now the same Afghans, which have undergone a background check that have been undergoing a long time, are in a state of the floating.
“I was shocked. I’m still shocked on Trump’s action. Roshangar asked that the Associated Press only used his first name because he was afraid of Taliban’s reprisals.
He spoke in an interview from Afghanistan, in which he, his wife and son in hiding, punishment or even execution of the Taliban live for his more than a decade of partnership with American armed forces.
Roshangar was a legal advisor to the Afghan Air Force and helped the US officials, from 2007 to the fall of Kabul, the Afghan capital, in 20021, from 2007 to the fall of Kabul, the Afghan capital.
“This was an unexpected step by Mr. Trump and everything went wrong and against us and gave us a serious danger under the Taliban regime,” he said.
The experience of his family is only one aspect of the consequences of Trump’s commands, many of which have been implemented without comprehensive consultation with experts in the affected areas.
“It is an absolute spot in our national honor that we have pulled out the carpet among people who have patiently waited for the move, and that have recently been supported here in the USA,” a coalition that supports Afghan resettlement efforts. “This is an immediately solvable topic and our national security requirements that we fix.”
During the US evacuation from Kabul in August 2021, American military aircraft flew tens of thousands of Afghans from the main airport. But many other Afghans did not make it to the planes. Since then, the United States has had various options for helping Afghans to emigrate to the USA, depending on what helps its role in supporting the mission in Afghanistan. This path was stopped at this point.
It is the latest in a series of setbacks for the group of American allies who, despite the powerful support of republican and democratic legislators together with veteran groups, continue to have hurdles when moving and reconstruction of their lives after the abrupt US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Many are now stranded in Albania, Pakistan and Qatar, where they were waiting to switch to the USA, others are hiding from the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Afghans, who finally make it to the USA, have to undergo a comprehensive process that normally includes a transfer from someone with which they have worked, background exams, medical screening and an interview with US officials.
Rabengar had his interview last August and was to conclude the last part of the process – a medical examination – this month when Trump announced that he hired all refugee settlements.
One of the Americans with whom he worked, Lieutenant Colonel Steve Loertscher, referred him to the refugee program in October 2021.
Loertscher does not describe Rabegar as a victim of the bidges administration that applicants such as her who had a higher retaliation through the Taliban.
However, he believes that Rabegar could be freed from the executive regulation in which the Foreign Ministry could consider individual applicants from case to case.
“Finally, I hope that he will be able to become a refugee and come to the United States,” said Loertscher.
Many veterans of the conflict have tried for years to facilitate the Afghans, with which they have worked with Find Refuge in the USA. Many were prepared for setbacks, but had hoped for special considerations for the Afghans.
Hashmatullah Alam had planned a flight to bring him, his wife and six children to the USA when Trump’s command came into force just one day after the Republican President took office. The 40-year-old and his family had arrived in Albania in December to be processed and enabled special immigrants before they left the USA
It is one of the at least 15,000 Afghans, which, according to Afghanevac, have already been clarified for trips before the break became effective.
Alam, who is still confident that the break would be lifted, informed the AP that he risked his family’s life to support the US mission in Afghanistan during the war and end it on the Taliban observation list. After three years, he had hoped to return to America with a fresh start in America, where his children grow up and receive an apprenticeship.
“We also help our families at home,” said Alam. “They live in Afghanistan, our mothers, our fathers and brothers.”
In Pakistan, Khalid, who worked next to the US Air Force, made a phone call to confirm his flight to America when the Afghan students, whom he taught, informed him about Trump’s command.
“Let me tell you that my students cried after hearing that Trump suspended the refugee program for us,” he said.
After his arrival in Islamabad in March 2023, Khalid, who also asked to be identified only with first names next year, completed the security approval, the medical tests and interviews. But when he was waiting to travel, he had no money to support his wife and children, and began to teach children from other Afghan families who came to Pakistan as part of the Visa program.
He hesitated to discuss how he helped America’s efforts in Afghanistan, but said that his contribution was “so important that the Taliban will kill me when I go back.”
“We appeal to President Donald Trump to reverse his decision because we have lost everything we had in Afghanistan, and he should know that we are waiting for a brilliant future in America,” he said. “He should evacuate us from here and bring us to America. We were promised that we will be brought to America and please honor this promise.”
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Amiri reported from Washington and Munir from Islamabad, Pakistan.
