Trump Plans to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo: NYT
More than 1,100 Afghans face a March 31 camp closure as officials weigh third-country resettlement or return to Taliban rule.
- The Trump administration is reportedly offering more than 1,100 Afghans at a Qatar base a choice between resettling in the Democratic Republic of Congo or returning to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, an activist said Tuesday.
- Following a shooting incident in Washington last year where an Afghan with U.S. intelligence ties fatally shot a National Guard member, President Donald Trump halted refugee processing and set a March 31 deadline to close the camp.
- Characterizing the plan as 'voluntary resettlement,' a State Department spokesperson stated that moving the population to a third country is a 'positive resolution' that provides safety for these remaining people to start a new life outside of Afghanistan.
- Democrat Senator Tim Kaine denounced the proposal as 'insane,' arguing the U.S. has an obligation to Afghan allies: 'We told these Afghans that we would help ensure their safety after they helped us.'
- AfghanEvac head Shawn VanDiver alleged the administration is effectively forcing refugees back to Afghanistan by proposing relocation to a war-torn country in collapse, stating, 'You do not relocate vetted wartime allies, more than 400 of them children, from American custody into a country in the middle of its own collapse.
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U.S. could send Afghans who helped its war effort to Congo
Hundreds of Afghans who helped the United States’ war effort in Afghanistan, and who are detained in Qatar, may soon be sent back to Afghanistan or the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the State Department. The push comes after President Trump halted the Afghan resettlement program more than a year ago. Amna Nawaz discussed what may come next with Shawn Van Diver of Afghan Evac.
Evangelical group condemns Trump admin.'s plan to send Afghan allies to DRC
The Evangelical refugee resettlement agency World Relief has opposed the Trump administration’s reported plans to resettle over 1,000 Afghans, many of whom aided the United States military during the war in Afghanistan, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as questions about the future of refugee resettlement in the U.S. remain. #WorldRelief #Afghanistan #DonaldTrump #TheNewYorkTimes #Refugeeresettlement
Afghan partners at risk as US considers third-country deportation
The Associated Press is reporting that President Donald Trump could soon send Afghans who helped us in the Afghanistan war and “relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar” to Congo or another third country. (They could also go back to Afghanistan, where their life expectancy would be days, not years.) AP reports the Afghans “served as interpreters and with Special Operations Forces” during the Afghan conflict.These people risked their live…
A calculated abandonment: The Afghan-DRC relocation plan and what it reveals
There is a particular cruelty in offering a person a choice between two catastrophes and calling it a solution. That is, in essence, what the Trump administration appears to be doing with approximately 1,100 Afghan nationals currently detained at Camp As Sayliyah, a former US military base in Qatar,people who were evacuated from Afghanistan precisely because of their loyalty to American forces, and who now find themselves being offered relocation
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