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One Family Fled Afghanistan. Then US Deportations Scattered Them Across the World

  • The Hussaini family fled Afghanistan seeking asylum in the U.S. after the Taliban regained power, but upon arriving in Mexico, they were separated by American border agents during detention.
  • Amir was sent back to Afghanistan while his sisters, Suraiya and Bano, were deported to different countries as part of U.S. policies tightening asylum access after Trump's administration took office.
  • Suraiya later found refuge in Chile after months of searching for safety, while Amir remains in Afghanistan facing danger from the Taliban and societal rejection.
  • The U.N. reported that global asylum access is declining, with experts noting rising displacement and fatal consequences for those returned to their countries.
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As they walked toward the thick metal columns of the border wall between Tijuana and San Diego, the Hussaini brothers carried nothing of their life in Afghanistan, except a vague fantasy of what might await them on the other side…

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One family fled Afghanistan. Then US deportations scattered them across the world

What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted nearly as old as the country itself. One Afghan family’s story of separation across the world shows the human consequences.

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