In August 2021. Tamim Satari ran to the Kabul International Airport to evacuate Afghanistan after working with the US army as an intelligence officer, helping US forces coordinate the Taliban air bombs campaigns. But u chaos
From the withdrawal of the US, his wife and newborns were lagging behind.
“It was so hard, and we didn’t want to lose our little son,” the Satar said.
He wasn’t alone. Thousands of aghan families are separated in hurrying withdrawal
American troops from Afghanistan. The babies have passed
Through the crowds of people and over the fence, and families made their way to pass through the door to the airport.
Three years later, more than 10,000 families remain separated, according to Shawn Vandiver, the founder of the #fgghanevac, a non -profit organization that worked with a state department to create a path to the merger of separated Afghan families.
“There are all these moms or dads or young children who are stuck here without family,” Vandiver said. “These people are in danger of us. And the least we can do is help them unite.”
He says that the number of children separated from their parents includes 2,800 minors without escorts – children who brought it to the United States, but whose parents did not, or who remained behind how their parents fled.
Vandiver cooperates with the Office of the Coordinator for Afghan Effort on Moving, Known as Care, State Department program founded for help War of Afghan Allies
immigrate to the US
Since 2021, the care program has allowed a trip for almost 200,000 Afghanists, according to the documents reviewed by CBS News.
This includes those with special immigrant visas that were War Allies
Typically paying the US government. It also includes Afghan refugees who assisted the US mission in military roles, as members of civil society or those who were members of the family of those who served.
“The truth is that each individual person is in the refugee pipeline and each individual person in [special immigrant visa] Pipelines are someone who has taken action on our behalf and is now in danger, “Vandiver said.
“And these Afghans deserve everything we can give them because they protected us.”
After trying unsuccessfully to bring his wife and son alone, the Satari connected with care with the care of 2023 to get help with their visa process. His wife Shiba and their son fled to Pakistan after Talibana threatened her to continue her work as a midwife while her husband was in the USA
On January 18, the weekend before the inauguration of President Trump, Shiba and her son flew to the JFK airport in New York, and then drove to Newark, New Jersey, to emotionally re -socialize with their husband. Tamim did not see his son, now almost 4 years, since he was a newborn baby.
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The gathering of a Sataris family at the Newark Liberty International Airport was one of the last gatherings of refugees.
Three days later, Mr. Trump signed Executive command
The suspension of the US refugee program, stating that “the United States lacks the possibility of absorbing a large number of migrants, and especially refugees, in their community in a way that does not threaten the availability of resources for Americans who protect their safety and security, and who ensures the appropriate assimilation of refugees.”
The federal judge ordered the administration to stop the ban, but since then the normal processing of refugees has not continued. In the recent submission of the court, the administration lawyers said it would take time to restart refugee programs, as agencies had already reduced contracts, reduced their workforce and frozen financing.
In addition to Mr. Trump’s executive order, State Secretary Marco Rubio frozen all funding for programs that provided travel for Afghanists who had already been approved to move to the US, this means that anyone who checked and approved the trips – including those who kept special immigrant visas – cannot leave Afghanistan, unless they are able to pay for the triple.
According to the Government documents reviewed by CBS, more than 40,000 Afghans who have been checked and approved to leave Afghanistan is now in Udubina and their life is in question.
“I have heard countless horror stories about the torture and murder of these allies of the United States,” said Republican Ambassador Michael McCaul of Texas, who voted for the care program.
“I would invite the administration to look at it and respect the obligation we have made [our allies]And they do not break our promise, but let them know that we will protect them. “
But Mr. Trump and other Republican legislators have expressed concern that the permission of Afghanists to the US makes the country more vulnerable to terrorism.
McCaul and others who are committed to the program say that the check is already extremely effective.
“You want to check them again? Go ahead. But they are already checked, and probably the dumbest checking in American history,” McCaul told CBS News.
Afghans who come to the US inspect State Department, the Ministry of Homeland Security and the US Nationality and Immigration Service. They go through several personal interviews and their biometry is checked from government databases, except for extensive medical screening.
“Afghans who come to this country through the care program are the most advanced immigrant population in the history of our county,” said a former State Department official.
The clocks remains to be hoping that it will not be one of the last to reconnect with his family. He settled in New Jersey and was employed in a mechanical job while studying his real estate license.
“I have a lot of hope in the future. I would love to have a great life,” Satari said. “I am responsible for taking care of my son, enroll in school and start lessons there. I have a lot of hope.”
