‘They Will Label Us as Spies’: The Afghan Students Abandoned by America

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Students at the American University of Afghanistan in Qatar fear having to return to their Taliban-ruled homeland after aid and visa cutoffs by the Trump administration.

On Jan. 20, just as Nilab was planning her final project for her cybersecurity degree, President Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee resettlement. The U.S. government had promised refugee status for her and her classmates, but Nilab’s hopes of rejoining her family, who received asylum in the United States after the Taliban took over, were shattered.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/afghanistan-students-qatar-funding.html

[thaibeachlovers]

Should not have trusted any western country. Britain was just as untrustworthy in the past as the US is today when it comes to such things. Ask the Arabs and the Cossacks about British promises, and the Vietnamese highland tribes and the Iraqi Kurds about US trustworthiness. Not a happy record in either case.