Four years have passed since Hanifa Giroval fled Afghanistan in the US refugee flight. But every August, her return to the same place.
Like a lot of Afghan August 15 The Taliban acquisition Giroval of Kabul, who works in human rights under the former Afghan government, is still stuck in the “legal limbs” in the United States. She is also pursuing a more stable situation in the United States in the political landscape and thousands of other Afghans around her. CircumstanceShift.
“I think I am still stuck in August 7, and I don’t remember anything about them in all the other August,” Giroval told Al Jazir.
During A, she often reminds of crazy dash Crush At the crowded Kabul International Airport: People hid in front of her, hiding in a week, Qatar, then Germany and finally, the US Virginia state.
After the early days of trying to start a new life from the old pieces.
She said, “Everything just comes to the surface and it has been cured from the day we went through the trauma and we have been trying to heal from that day,” she said.
The conflict may have been familiar, but since the US President Donald Trump took over on January 20, her irony has increased. Its fanatic immigration policies Almost every migratory community in the United States has touched, the insecurity is underlined by anyone on an indefinite legal status.
There is a feeling that anything can happen from one day to the next.
Giroval said, “I have a approved shelter case, which gives a specific level of protection, but we do not know the future of some of the strategies on coming abroad to live forever,” Giroval said. “I am very afraid that I can be subjected to the deportation at any time.”
Uncontrolled warning
Four years after the withdrawal of the United States, Trump’s policies have remained a lot unclear as to how the Afghan in the United States will affect the already, approximately 180,000 estimates.
They came from the complications of different ways, in which 75,000 flights were made Fly Immediately after the withdrawal, the US President Joe Biden’s stewardship took what he had dubbed. “Welcome to Operation Alice“Thousands of people have discovered shelter by training around the world to go to the southern border of the United States.
Have been replaced by some so -called Special migratory visa (SIVS), under the notorious backlog, is reserved for individuals who work directly with the US army in Afghanistan.
Others have been rehabilitated by the Special Foreign Department program, known as the Priority 1 (P) and Priority 1 (P) launched by President Biden’s administration, which faces harassment on behalf of the US government or in various abilities with the American-based organization in Afghanistan.
Supervisory Policy Advisor Adam Bates in the International Affiliate Assistance Program explained that some of these ways, especially SIV and refugee programs, provide clear courses to American Residency and eventually citizenship.
But, they made it clear that others are not – lawyers have warned the members of the population to be subjected to permanent uncertainty and political waves.
“Most of the lawyers of the Biden Administration officials were about finding a more permanent legal way for Afghan,” Bates Al Jazira said. “The Trump Administration has drawn attention to the possibility of giving this community a chance to double and target this community.”
Afghan pressure in the United States
During Trump’s new tenure, his administration has made many concrete – and sometimes contradictory movements that affect Afghan in the United States.
Those End During the Taliban acquisition, the “temporary protection” (TPS) has already shown the “improved security situation” and “stability economy” in the country.
At the same time, the Trump administration added Afghanistan to the new Travel ban List, restricting visas for Afghan, widely states against the US “foreign policy, national security and terrorism”.
These actions underline that “the situation in Afghanistan is from the point of view of the Trump administration, whatever is needed,” according to Bates.
Trump has offered his contradictory messages, Criticism In July, the Biden administration has promised to be subjected to the deportation of the United Arab Emirates, promising to handle the withdrawal and “saving” in July.
In the meantime, the administration ends a special specialty for people entered by the United States CBP app an app In April, thousands of Afghan entered through the southern border have a potential impact.
Advocates have warned that many Afghan will soon face another legal high. After emptying in the 5th, thousands of Afghan were given a humanitarian parole, which is a temporary situation that allowed them to legally live in the United States and work in the United States for the past two years extended. That program will end soon.
Many have since approved this status, after which other legal routes have been discovered, often applied for shelter or SIV, but can be subjected to an unknown and deportation at the end of the expansion. Law Creating a clear way of citizenship has been in the Congress for years.
The American citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) (USCIS) have not responded to how many Afghan Americans have been on humanitarian parole and they did not respond to Al Jazir’s data.
Trump has increased Afghan discomfort by the aggressive approach to the implementation, which has seen the increasing number of people coming from abroad to live forever. Without criminal history Target the deportation and permanent residents Political advocacy??
Betts said, “This is just an increase in the board and a combination of fear and instability of this community,” Bates said. “If you are not sure what is going to happen tomorrow or next week or one year, it is difficult to make a life decision”.
‘Pull out the rug’
Meanwhile, thousands of Afghan have started to gain security in the United States from abroad, the route has been strictly narrowed, or they are completely blocked.
The Trump administration has cited the national emergency situation and has paused shelter claims on the southern border of the United States. It has almost completely suspended the US refugee program (Usrap.
Advocates say that the special P1 and P2 program created for Afghan refugees were completely stopped under Trump. Since accepting the office, the administration has not published the refugee entry number and did not answer Al Jazir’s data request.
“It seems that we have taken out our Afghan associate countries through the strategic changes that give legal protection to many Afghans in the United States, and Kristin Pek, CEO of Lutheron Social Services in the National capital, told Al Jazira.
She mentioned that the SIV pipeline is working under Trump’s leadership, though there are some limitations, in which rehabilitation approveds need to pay for their own journey.
Meanwhile, rehabilitation institutions like Luthern have been forced to seriously reduce their actions after the administration’s stop-work order on January 24. Until March, Peke said that the organization has been forced to leave about 120 employees.
Susan Antolin, executive director of Woman for Woman for Woman for Woman for Woman, a non-profit organization providing mental health, legal and social support to the United States, said that organizations like them are constantly harassing uncertainty.
“We are diversifying our funds and are making a lot of effort, as there are many other organizations, to find other ways to bring this fund to support our events,” he told Al Jazira. “As an organization that faces this type of work, we have to go ahead. We have to do 10 times more or 100 times more than this work.”
‘No longer a priority for the world’
The unstable situation in the United States reflects a comprehensive global trend.
The Taliban government remains despite the promising reforms of getting international recognition Accused Comprehensive violation of human rights and a revenge murder. Nevertheless, in recent years, he has modified his diplomatic relations with many governments, and in July, Russia became the first country that formally approved the group as a legal government in Afghanistan.
At the same time, the governments of Pakistan and Iran Rapid Back to Afghanistan in Afghanistan, more than 1.4 million Afghan Deported or left According to the UNHCR, Iran alone from January 2025 July.
The Reuters News Agency also reports that the UAE has begun to evacuate Washington by Afghan.
In July, Germany has also begun to deport Afghanistan in Afghanistan, and has organized a second deportation plane since the Taliban came to power in July.
Collective movements send clear messages, Evakui Giroval said: “We know that Afghanistan is not a priority for the world.”
Nevertheless, she said that under Trump’s leadership, the US did not give up hope that “his friend will not forget.”
She said, “We know the elasticity of our own Afghan community. We have trained to go to the place wherever we are and trained to fight as much as possible,” she said.
“This is a thing that gives me hope.”