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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfghan ALLIES who fought alongside US soldiers are BETRAYED by Trump -- isn't revenge or violence likely??
By the time Trumps term is over, no one in the world will trust the United States.The promise that the US would have your back and might give you safe haven meant something once. But Trump is betraying Afghan allies who risked their lives and their families, or torture by theTaliban, by deporting them back to where they are likely to be murdered.
And what do people who are betrayed often do? Seek revenge? Was the DC shooter in Washington for a reason of anger, revenge?
Read the story of Dadfar, from 3 weeks ago. He is another Afghani who fought alongside the US for 14 years. Now he is in ICE detention, unable to work and feed his family. Then ask yourself:Did the DC shooter also fear being deported? How many others are in this boat, and wouldnt anyone in their community of Afghan asylum seekers be deeply aware of similar stories? Dadfar is NOT a shooter, but his story must frighten or enrage anyone who has finally successfully settled in a place where their families are safe.
Back in Afghanistan, Mohammad Ali Dadfar worked alongside the U.S. government fighting against the Taliban as a security official in the Afghan Army.
He joined U.S. troops as they traveled from province to province, attempting to hold back the armed rebellion. And after U.S. forces withdrew from the country, and the capital city of Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021, Dadfar feared he and his family would be murdered.
It took three years for the family of six to journey to the United States, where they applied for asylum and settled in Colorado. Dadfar, who had a permit that authorized him to work in the United States, initially got a job as an insulation installer in Boulder County, then studied and received a commercial drivers license this fall to become a long-haul truck driver.
Dadfar, who had been working as a truck driver for only a few weeks, was caught up in what ICE officials are calling Operation Midway Blitz, a Chicago-based effort to prevent alien threats to public safety. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said 223 people were taken into custody in a successful operation with the Indiana State Police targeting truck drivers near the Illinois state line.
Dadfar had to drag his family through hell to get here, to the promised land. Now the US wants to send them all back to square one, where they will be killed, where his daughters were going to be able to get educated.
To Trumps Gestapo, these human beings are thirty piece of silver, just another paycheck, a financial bonus. To Putin, these betrayals are revenge against the U.S. and insurance against future interference. Should the need arise, no one in Afghanistan will work with us again. No one will be inclined to inform on terror cells, and we will have lost eyes and ears on the ground all over the world.
To me, this is a betrayal of America because it is a rejection of the worth of the individual, a needless theft of life and liberty, and a callous disregard for families and children.
JI7
(93,040 posts)lostnfound
(17,328 posts)Trump is twisting this into an excuse as to why they should all be deported, but his treachery was probably a trigger for the shooting, or for the shooter being in DC with a gun.
1. He has been intent on deporting Afghans since January, over the objections of veterans.
Afghans who helped the U.S. are in dangerous limbo after Trump's order on refugees
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/27/nx-s1-5273521/trump-executive-order-refugee-afghanistan-veterans
2. A February ProPublica article described funds being cut to relief organizations, and minor children being stranded when they were stopped from boarding a plane that was going to reunite them with their parents. Republican congressman Michael McCaul said that the US needed to live up to its word. Otherwise, down the road, in another conflict, no ones going to trust us, he said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-refugee-executive-order-afghan-allies
3. Ordinary people protested, and especially veterans:
https://www.thegazette.com/news/cedar-rapids-protesters-show-support-for-afghans-facing-deportation/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq68zq24vg5o
4. He cancelled Temporary Protected Status for Afghans in July, claiming it was now safe.
https://forumtogether.org/article/removing-protections-for-afghan-allies-disrupts-communities-and-undermines-american-businesses/