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Bay Area Afghan community reacts to immigration pause - CBS News Bay Area
Nov 30, 2025
Members of the Bay Area’s Afghan community said they strongly disagree with President Donald Trump’s decision to indefinitely pause immigration from Afghanistan.
Members of the Bay Area’s Afghan community said they strongly disagree with President Donald Trump’s decision to indefinitely pause immigration from Afghanistan.
Story in written form
The last paragraph is tragically amusing:
Not everyone in the community opposes the immigration pause. One Afghan-American man, who asked not to be named because he feared backlash from friends, said he supports the president's decision. He said he arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1981, voted for Mr. Trump last year, and believes the immigration pause will make the country safer by keeping asylum seekers out.
I look forward to the follow-up story about the guy who immigrated in 1981 catching bogus charges. "I'm one of the good ones" has seldom worked out in history.