Tirana, Albania (APP) – He assisted US military order air strikes against the Taliban and Islamic State fighters and worked as a driver and translator during the longest US war. He was ready to start a new life in the United States.
Again President Donald Trump Issued executive orders that eliminate programs used Help Afghans Go to safety in the United States. Now the same Afghans, who have examined a year -long background, find themselves in a state of lumbo.
“I was surprised. I am still in shock because I have already waited four years from this process, Trump’s troubled action to get out of this hell and go to a safe place and to live calmly and start a new start. Requested that the Associated Press only use his first name because he was afraid to pay the Taliban.
He spoke in an interview with Afghanistan where he, his wife and son, was punished by the Taliban for punishing or even a decade with US forces, punishing or hanging from the Taliban for more than a decade. Yes.
He served as a legal adviser to the bright Air Force, which helped review US officials and finally approve air strike packages, from 2007 to 2021, from the fall of the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Taliban and the Islamic State Group. Were used against.
“This was an unexpected move by Mr Trump, and everything happened wrong and against us and left us in serious danger under the Taliban government,” he said.
His family’s experience is just one aspect of the consequences of Trump’s orders, many of which were implemented without extensive consultation with experts from the affected areas.
“This is an absolute stain on our national honor that we have pulled the carpet from the bottom of those who are waiting patiently to relocate with patience and here the United States The people who have recently arrived. ” , A alliance supporting Afghan settlement efforts. “This is a very solving issue and we fix our national security demands.”
During the US withdrawal from Kabul in August 2021, US military planes took tens of thousands of Afghans from the central airport. But many Afghans did not make it on planes. Since then, the United States has different ways to help Afghans migrate to the United States, depending on what they have in supporting the US -led mission in Afghanistan. On this route, the path has been blocked.
It is the latest in a series of shocks for a group of US allies that, despite strong support from Republican and Democratic lawmakers with veterans groups, re -transfer their lives after a sudden US withdrawal from Afghanistan and regenerate They face obstacles to building.
Now many people are trapped in Albania, Pakistan and Qatar, where they were waiting for the transfer to the United States and others are hiding from the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Afghans who eventually make a place in the United States have to go through a wide process that usually involves a reference with someone they have worked, background testing, medical screening and US officials. Interview with.
Rashinger had his interview last August and was prepared to end a medical examination in the last part of the process this month when Trump announced that he was stopping all refugees’ settlement.
One of the Americans who worked with Lieutenant Colonel Steve Loureer, handed them over to the refugee program in October 2021.
Lower Sturers describes Rashinger as the Biden administration’s accident that does not prefer applicants like those who are more at risk of retaliation by the Taliban.
But he believes that Rashinger may be exempted from the executive order, which states that the Foreign Department may consider individual applicants on the basis of a “case -by -case” basis.
“Finally, I hope he will come to the United States as a refugee,” said Lower Sturers.
Many former soldiers of conflict Has tried for years He worked with asylum in the United States to help the Afghans. Many people were ready to push, but they hoped special consideration for the Afghans.
Just one day after the Republican president took office, when Trump’s order was implemented, Hashmatullah Alam had a flight to take him, his wife and six children to the United States. The 40 -year -old and his family arrived in Albania in December, which could be processed and special immigrants were granted visas before leaving the United States.
According to the Afghans, they are among the at least 15,000 Afghans who were already cleared for travel before the break.
The scholar, who hopes the break will be abolished, told the AP that he endangered his family’s life to help the US mission in Afghanistan during the war, and from the Taliban’s eyes. Added to the list. He hoped that three years later, in the United States, a new start would be paid for the sacrifice where his children could grow up and study.
“Besides, we help our families,” the scholar said. “They are living in Afghanistan, our mothers, our ancestors and brothers.”
In Pakistan, Khalid, who worked with the US Air Force, was waiting for a phone to confirm his flight to the United States by phone when he taught Afghan students about Trump’s order. Notified.
“Let me tell you that my students cried to hear that Trump had suspended the refugee program for us,” he said.
After arriving in Islamabad in March 2023, Khalid, who only asked to identify by first name, completed the next year’s security clearance, medical tests and interviews. But when he waited for the journey to be approved, he ran away from money to help his wife and children and began teaching children of other Afghan families who came to Pakistan as part of the visa program.
He was reluctant to discuss how he helped US efforts in Afghanistan, but he said his contribution “is so important that if I go back, the Taliban will kill me.”
He said, “We appeal to President Donald Trump to reject his decision because we have lost what we had in Afghanistan, and they should know that we are waiting for a bright future in the United States here. ” “We should empty us from here and take us to the United States, we were promised that we would take the United States, and please respect that promise.”
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Amir reported from Washington and Munir to Islamabad, Pakistan.
