{"id":220309,"date":"2025-01-21T06:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T06:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/trumps-suspension-of-refugee-admissions-puts-afghans-at-risk-advocate-says\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T06:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T06:28:14","slug":"trumps-suspension-of-refugee-admissions-puts-afghans-at-risk-advocate-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/trumps-suspension-of-refugee-admissions-puts-afghans-at-risk-advocate-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Suspension of Refugee Admissions Puts Afghans at Risk, Advocate Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An executive order signed by President Trump on Monday that suspends refugee admissions to the United States puts at risk thousands of citizens of Afghanistan who helped the American mission during the war there, the president of a California-based resettlement group said.<\/p>\n

The order would affect not only scores of Afghans who are now in hiding from the Taliban\u2019s repressive rule, but also family members of active-duty U.S. troops, said Shawn VanDiver, the president of AfghanEvac, a coalition of more than 250 organizations helping to resettle Afghans who worked with the Americans before the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.<\/p>\n

The order amounts to \u201canother broken promise\u201d by the United States, Mr. VanDiver said by email. It \u201crisks abandoning thousands of Afghan wartime allies who stood alongside U.S. service members during two decades of conflict,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s order, titled \u201cRealigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program<\/a>,\u201d is set to take effect next Monday. It does not specify when the suspension will end, saying that it will continue \u201cuntil such time as the further entry into the United States of refugees aligns with the interests of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n