They were waiting for the planes. After that Trump closed the door on Afghan Allies.

Nasir, a military adviser to the Afghan Air Force during the war, helped recruit planes against Taliban fighters. He is in Afghanistan, where he has been living in hiding since the Taliban takeover in 2021 while awaiting re-admission to the United States.

He had already passed the checks and only needed a medical examination to complete the process, she said. But this past week, he and tens of thousands of Afghans found their ways to the United States barred by a major action signed by President Trump.

The order stopped a resettlement program that brings thousands of legal refugees to each country. Among the many who are now in limbo are afghans who are helping the American war effort and are looking for a new start and a sense of security in the United States.

Nasir, a former colonel who saw that his full name was not used, is written in the text of the document that Mr. Trump had only to take care of the interests of the Afghans in this decision, but also failed to look at the interests of the United States. “

“How is it possible that the country’s allies and Americans trust the US government?” he added.

The US refugee admissions program since 1980, allows legal immigration to displaced people who have fled their countries at home due to persecution, war or other threats. When suspending the program, Mr. Trump said that the continuation could continue the responsibility of the society that does not equip the refugees.

The order of Mr. It says that the secretary of state and the secretary of national security can accept refugees on time, but only if they determine that they are “in a national organization and do not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.”

The order does not say that the moratorium will end when the moratorium ends, it says that it will continue “until an additional period of time for the entry of refugees into the United States.”

At least 40,000 afghans were seeking asylum in the United States before the order was issued on Monday and observer flights were suspended the next day, according to #AAAAVANENEVAC, a coalition of 250 groups working to help send Afghans.

The stoppage is especially devastating for the 10,000 to 15,000 Afghans who, according to #AAAAVHANEVAC, were fully manned and preparing for flights. It is also a wonderful thing for the members of the US-BASED CASTITITS THAT ARE INTERRUPTED TO COME TO COME TO COME TO COME TO COME TO COME TO COME THEIR CHARACTERS IN AFGHANISTAN.

A US Army Paratrooper at Fort Baby in North Carolina, who asked not to be identified by his code name, Mojo, said he spent the past year helping his sister and her husband apply for refugee status in Afghanistan.

Mojo, 26, was a translator for US forces in Afghanistan. He said he joined the US Army two years ago after leaving Afghanistan in 2021 under a program that provides visas to Afghans or the US government.

His sister and son-in-law, both doctors, are in hiding, fearing retaliation from the Taliban for Mojo’s war service, he said. They recently completed a lengthy refugee resettlement process and were allowed to bring him back to the United States, she said. All that was left was to plan his escape from Afghanistan.

“Mojo said it was a very close call – and suddenly everything was shut down,” Moo said by phone from Fort Independence, then known as Fort Bragg, where he served in the 82nd Airborne Division.

When his sister heard the news, Mojo said, “She started crying – and I started crying with her.”

Shawn Vadeiver, President of #AAAFGANENEVAC, the so-called Order Cather of Afghans who support the US government or military.

“Everybody is frozen in place – it’s sad,” he said in a phone interview.

Among those who have escaped uncertainty are former members of the Afghan Army and Security Forces, as well as judges and lawyers involved in the prosecution of members of the Taliban. Some of the judges and lawyers are women, who are persecuted by the Taliban.

Mr Vandiver said suspending the resettlement program did not address the problem of illegal immigration at the Southern US Border – a focus of Mr Trump’s campaign. People in this program cannot apply on their own, but must be referred by government agencies or nongovernmental partners selected.

“Failure to protect our Afghan allies sends a dangerous message to the world: that US commitment is conditional and temporary,” Mr Vandiver said.

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have fled the Taliban’s march to neighboring Pakistan. Large numbers live in the capital, Islamabad, where they quickly resettle in the United States and other Western countries through embassies and refugee agencies there.

Many fear they will be sent back to Afghanistan now that their path to the United States has been cut off. Pakistan has already deported hundreds of thousands of Afghans due to rising tensions with the Taliban.

“For three years, we endured endless torture from the Pakistani authorities,” said Ihsan Ullah Ahmedzai, a journalist who worked with Kabul-sponsored media in Kabul, before fleeing to Islam. “But we remained hopeful that we will soon leave the United States,” he added.

That hope is now gone. “Trump’s order felt like a bombshell,” Mr Ahmedzai said. “It lowered our hopes and left us very vulnerable.”

Noor Habiba, who worked with a US-funded women’s rights group in Kabul before fleeing her husband and two daughters to Islamabad, said she had hoped until now to make it to the United States in February or March.

“We will not go back to Afghanistan,” said Ms. Habiba. “There is nothing left for women to live under Taliban rule.”

Immigration advocates are concerned that Afghans already in the United States could also be at risk. Immigrants allowed into the country under bid management programs could be immediately deported through immigration enforcement and enforcement procedures, according to an internal memo obtained by The New York Times.

After American troops withdraw from Afghanistan in August 2021, the Biden administration began a program to allow Afghans to enter the United States on humanitarian grounds, according to the immigration policy center.

As of 2023, more than 90,000 Afghans had settled in the United States, according to Cistafa Babak, an Emerson affiliate who owns a resettlement expert.

The number of refugees from Afghanistan and other countries accepted under the US resettlement program has fluctuated under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Under President Barack Obama, 85,000 refugees were admitted in 2016. In 2020, the last year of Mr Trump’s first term, the number reached a low of 11,000. President Joseph R. BIDEN JR. He renewed the program, rehabilitating 100,000 refugees last year, the largest in three decades.

The program requires applicants to go through a demanding screening process that includes background checks with the FBI and other agencies, biometric tests, medical exams, and multiple security interviews.

Zahra, a US Sergeant, said the five family members hiding in Afghanistan had done so in the process that the executive order intended.

He said he had come to the United States from Afghanistan on a scholarship in 2016. He is enlisting in the US Army in 2021, he said.

Zahra, 30, says: “My family is very depressed. We were hanging on to the little hope we were given.”

He added, “this temporary halt in migration flights takes that little bit of hope away and leaves them with a future full of uncertainty.”

Mojo, a US Army Paratrooper, said he was afraid that Mr. Trump would block the resettlement of some refugees, but he believed that he would withdraw the Afghan Allies because of the US Mission.

“I still hope” for a pardon, he said. “I mean, you’re my commander.”