Afghan fugitives feel ‘treacherous’ by Trump’s orders that blocks the relocation to the US

“The United States does not understand what I did for this country is a betrayal,” says Abdullah BBC.

He escaped from Afghanistan with his parents during the withdrawal of US troops in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper of the US military. He is experiencing that she cannot help her sister and her husband also escape because of the possession of President Donald Trump to suspend the resettlement program.

The order cancels all flights and applications for Afghan refugees, without any exceptions for the families of the active servicemen.

Trump claims that the decision concerns a “record level of migration” that threatens the “availability of resources for Americans”.

But Abdullah and several other Afghan refugees said the BBC that the United States “turned away” from them, despite the years of work with US officials, troops and non -profit organizations in Afghanistan. We do not use their true names because they are afraid that it may endanger their business or family.

As soon as Abdullah heard about the order, he called his sister. “She cried, she lost all hope,” he said. He believes that his work did her target the Taliban government, who came to power in 2021.

“Anxiety, it’s just incredibly. She thinks we will never be able to see each other again, ”he says.

During the war, Abdullah says he was a translator in the US army. When he left Afghanistan, his sister and her husband were unable to get his passports in time to take a flight.

Sukhail Shakhin, a spokesman for the Taliban Government, said the BBC that there was amnesty for anyone who worked with international forces, and all Afghans can “live in a country without any fear.” He believes that these refugees are “economic migrants”.

But the UN report in 2023 questioned the assurances of the Taliban government. Hundreds of former state officials and members of the Armed Forces were allegedly killed despite the universal amnesty.

Sister Abdullah and her husband underwent medical examinations and conversations needed to reset in the US. The BBC got acquainted with the document of the US Department of Defense, which supports their application.

Now Abdullah says Trump’s persistence at too high immigration does not justify his separation from the family. He describes sleepless nights and says that anxiety affects his work in the US military unit.

Babak, a former legal adviser of the Afghan Air Force, is still hiding in Afghanistan.

“They don’t just violate their promise – they violate us,” he says.

The BBC saw letters from the United Nations confirming its role, as well as a letter that supported his petition for asylum from the US Air Force. The approval is added that he gave advice on strikes on the militants related to both the Taliban and the Islamic State group.

Grandma cannot understand the president’s decision, given that he worked with the US troops. “We risked life because of these missions. We are now in serious danger,” he says.

He transported his wife and his little son from place to place, desperately trying to stay hidden. He claims that his brother was tortured for where he was. BBC cannot check this part of its story, given the nature of its claims.

Babak calls Trump and his national security advisor Mike Waltz to change his mind.

“Mike Waltz, you served in Afghanistan. Please support the president, ”he tells us.

Before the farewell adds: “The only ray of light for which we kept is faded.”

Ahmada managed to fly to the United States among the chaos of withdrawal, but now he is separated with his family. He felt that he had no choice but to leave his father, mother and siblings.

If he and his father did not work with the US, he says his family would not be the target of the Taliban government. “I can’t sleep, knowing I’m one of the reasons they were in this situation,” he adds.

Prior to the capture of the Ahmad Taliban, he worked in a non-profit organization called Open Government Partnership (OGP), founded 13 years ago with headquarters in Washington. He says that the work he is proud of the most is the creation of a special court to combat the tough treatment of women.

But he claims that his work in OGP and his upholding women’s rights made him a target, and he was shot by the Taliban in 2021 before the Taliban seized the country.

The BBC got acquainted with a letter from a hospital in Pennsylvania with an assessment of “evidence of damage from the bullet and fragments”, which, according to them, “correspond to his story about what happened to him in Kabul.”

Worse, he says his family is also in danger because his father was a colonel of the Afghan army and assisted the CIA. The BBC saw a certificate issued by the Afghan national security forces that thanked his father for his service.

Ahmad says the Taliban government pursued his parents, siblings, so they fled to Pakistan. The BBC saw photos where father and brother Ahmada are treated in the hospital from injuries inflicted as he claims to people from the Taliban government.

His family has passed several stages of the resettlement program. He says he even provided evidence that he has enough funds to keep his family when they arrive in the US without any state aid.

Now Ahmad says the situation is critical. His family is in Pakistan on visas, which expires in a few months. He contacted his moms and told him “patience.”

The head of #afghanevac, a non-profit group that helps Afghan refugees who are entitled to resettlement, said that, he estimated, 10,000-15,000 people are in the last stages of applications.

A pregnant mine was waiting for the departure from Islamabad for six months. She is afraid that her terror can threaten her unborn baby. “When I lose a baby, I will kill myself,” she said the BBC.

She says she had previously protested for women’s rights even after the Taliban government took control of Afghanistan. She claims she was arrested in 2023 and kept all night.

“Even then, I didn’t want to leave Afghanistan. After my release, I was hiding, but I was called and told that I would be killed next time, ”she says.

The mine is afraid that the Pakistani government will send her back to Afghanistan. This is partly because Pakistan will not give Afghan refugee refugees indefinitely.

Over the decades of instability in the region, the country has accepted hundreds of thousands of refugees from its neighbor. According to the UN Refugee Affairs, there are three million Afghans in the country, about 1.4 million of which have documents.

As the cross -border tension increases with the Taliban government, the fate of the Afghans in Pakistan grows, reports of alleged intimidation and detentions. The UN Special Rapporteur said he was concerned that Afghans deserved a better attitude in the region.

The Pakistan’s government says it expels foreign citizens who are illegally in the country back to Afghanistan and confirmed that search raids were conducted in January.

According to moms, more than 795 thousand Afghans have been expelled from Pakistan since September last year.

Afghan refugees we talked to, feel clamped between the Motherland, where their lives are in danger, and the accepting country whose patience is at the end.

They had their hopes on the United States, but what seemed to be safe harbor was suddenly blocked by the new president to further notice.