Afghan refugees feel “betrayal” because of Trump's order that prevents their transfer to the United States

Abdullah told the BBC: “It seems as if the United States does not actually understand what it did for this country. It is betrayal,” Abdullah told the BBC.

He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the American withdrawal in August 2021 and is now an umbrella in the American army. He is concerned that he cannot help his sister and her husband to escape, because of the executive order issued by President Donald Trump to suspend the resettlement program.

It cancels all flights and Afghan refugee requests, without any exception to the families of the working members of the military service.

Trump says the decision deals with “standard immigration levels” that threaten “resources availability for Americans.”

But Abdullah and many other Afghan refugees told the BBC that they feel that the United States “turned its back”, despite years of working alongside American officials, forces and non -profit organizations in Afghanistan. We do not use their real names, because they are afraid that this will endanger their issues or endanger their families.

Once Abdullah heard about it, he called his sister. He added: “She was crying, and I lost hope.” It is believed that his work made it a target of the Taliban government that took power in 2021.

He says: “Anxiety is unimaginable. It believes that we will not be able to see each other again,” he says.

Abdullah says that during the war he was working as a translator of American forces. When he left Afghanistan, his sister and her husband were unable to get passports in time to board the plane.

Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban government spokesman, told the BBC that there is forgiveness for anyone who worked with the international forces, and all Afghans can “live in the country without any fear.” He claims that these refugees are “economic immigrants”.

However, a report by the United Nations issued in 2023 cast a shadow of suspicion of the guarantees submitted by the Taliban government. It found that hundreds of former government officials and members of the armed forces were killed despite the general amnesty.

Abdullah's sister and her husband had completed medical examinations and interviews necessary for resettlement in the United States. The BBC has seen a document from the US Defense Ministry supporting their request.

Now Abdullah says that Trump's insistence that immigration rates are very high and does not justify his separation from his family. He describes the long nights, and says that anxiety affects his work in his combat unity that serves the United States.

Babak, the former Afghan Air Force legal advisor, is still hiding in Afghanistan.

He says, “They not only make their promise to us, but also to us,” he says.

BBC has seen messages from the United Nations confirming his role, as well as a message that supports his asylum request from a US Air Force. Support adds that he provided advice on the strikes targeting the militants associated with the Taliban and ISIS.

Babak cannot understand the president’s decision, as he worked alongside the American forces. “We have risked our lives because of these tasks. Now we are in great danger,” he says.

He was moving his wife and young son from one place to another, trying to stay in hiding. He claims that his brother was tortured because of his whereabouts. BBC cannot check this part of his story, given the nature of his allegations.

Papak appeals to Trump and his national security advisor Mike Waltz change their opinion.

He told us: “Mike Walz, I served in Afghanistan. Please encourage the president.”

He added, “The only light beam that we used to stick to,” he added.

Ahmed managed to travel to the United States amid the chaos of withdrawal, but it is now separate from his family. He felt that he had no choice but to leave his father, mother and teenage siblings behind him.

He says that if he and his father had not worked with the United States, his family would not have been targets for the Taliban government. “I cannot sleep and I know that I am one of the reasons that made them in this situation,” he added.

Before the Taliban seized power, Ahmed was working in a non -profit organization called the Open Government Partnership (OGP), which was co -founded by the United States 13 years ago and is headquartered in Washington. He says that the work that is proud of is the establishment of a special court to address violations against women.

But he claims that his work in OGP and his defense of women made him a target and Taliban fighters shot him in 2021 before the Taliban took control of the country.

BBC reviewed a letter from a hospital in Pennsylvania to evaluate “evidence of bullets and shrapnel”, which they say is “consistent with his novel of what happened to him in Kabul.”

It worsens things that he says that his family is also in danger because his father was a faith in the Afghan army and helps the Central Intelligence Agency. The BBC reviewed a certificate provided by the Afghan National Security Forces, thanking his father for his service.

Ahmed says that the Taliban government bothered his parents, brothers and sisters, and they fled to Pakistan. The BBC saw pictures showing Ahmed's father and brother Yaaljan in the hospital, from injuries claiming that members of the Taliban government had attached them to them.

His family had completed several steps from the resettlement program. He says he provided evidence that he has enough money to support his family once they arrive in the United States, without any government assistance.

Now Ahmed says that the situation is critical. His family is in Pakistan with visas that expire within months. He called the International Organization for Migration and asked him to “be patient.”

The president of #AFGHANEVAC, a non -profit group that helps the qualified Afghan refugees to resettle, said that it is estimated that between 10,000 to 15,000 people were in the late stages of their requests.

Mina, a pregnant woman, has been waiting for a flight outside Islamabad for six months. She is concerned that her horror will threaten her child who has not yet been born. “If I lose my child, I will kill myself,” she told the BBC.

She says she used to protest against women's rights, even after the Taliban government took control of Afghanistan. She claims that she was arrested in 2023 and was held all night.

“Until then, I didn't want to leave Afghanistan. I hid after my release, but they called me and said they would kill me next time,” she says.

Mina fears that the Pakistani government will return to Afghanistan. This is partly due to the fact that Pakistan will not give Afghan refugees asylum indefinitely.

The country has received hundreds of thousands of refugees from its neighbor, for decades of instability in the region. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the country will host three million Afghan citizens, about 1.4 million of whom are documented.

As the border tensions with the Taliban government escalated, anxiety over the fate of Afghans in Pakistan increased, with reports of alleged intimidation and arrests. The United Nations Special Rapporteur expressed his concern, and that the Afghans in the region deserve a better treatment.

The Pakistani government says it expels the foreign nationals in the country illegally to Afghanistan, and confirmed that inspection raids were carried out in January.

According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 795,000 Afghan has been expelled from Pakistan since last September.

Afghan refugees who we spoke to feel besieged between a homeland where their lives are at risk, and a host country that began patience.

They were hanging their hopes on the United States, but what seemed a safe haven was suddenly closed by the new president until further notice.