Funding cuts, immigration crackdowns threaten Oregon Afghan refugee program

Funding cuts, immigration crackdowns threaten Oregon Afghan refugee program

In August 2021, the United States ended its two-decade war in Afghanistan, marred by a chaotic and deadly exit that saw thousands of Afghans and Americans alike fleeing the country. Afghan immigrant Darwaish Zakhil watched from Beaverton, Oregon, nearly 7,000 miles away, as Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul fell back to the Taliban, the group he had helped the U.S Army fight against for four years. In the week that followed, sparked by outrage…