Just so we're clear:
When I was a #SEAL deployed to #Afghanistan, we did not treat suspected #IED manufacturers this poorly.
This is #fascism. In America. Never normalize this. Never.
Just so we're clear:
When I was a #SEAL deployed to #Afghanistan, we did not treat suspected #IED manufacturers this poorly.
This is #fascism. In America. Never normalize this. Never.
Zia worked as an #interpreter & cultural adviser at Camp Mike Spann in Mazar-e Sharif, #Afghanistan, from about 2005 until 2009, Petersen, his attorney, told The Post.
Because of his work, Zia “suffered & continues to suffer threats to the life & property of himself & his family members by enemy forces & criminal elements,” says a recommendation letter from a supervisor who oversaw Zia’s interpreter work.
Matt Zeller, an #Army veteran whose #Afghan interpreter saved his life in a 2008 firefight, co-founded the nonprofit No One Left Behind to help resettle #Afghans. He said he fears the #immigration crackdown will unwind that effort.
“The #Trump administration knows what’s going to happen to these folks. They’re not stupid. They understand that the #Taliban is going to kill them when they get back to #Afghanistan,” Zeller said. “They just don’t care.”
As the admin seeks to fulfill #Trump’s pledge to carry out the largest #deportation op in #US history, attys for the men say their clients — #Afghans who fear retribution from the #Taliban for their work assisting the US in its 20-yr war in #Afghanistan — have found themselves in the crosshairs of #ICE. The attys provided WaPo with #military #contracts & certificates, #asylum & #visa applications, recommendation letters & other records that described both men’s work on behalf of #USmilitary….
One former interpreter for US forces in #Afghanistan was detained by ICE agents in Connecticut last month after he showed up for a routine green card appointment. A second was arrested in June, just minutes after attending his first #asylum hearing in San Diego.
#law#Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/03/afghanistan-immigrants-trump-deportations/
Matt Zeller, an #Army veteran whose #Afghan interpreter saved his life in a 2008 firefight, co-founded the nonprofit No One Left Behind to help resettle #Afghans. He said he fears the #immigration crackdown will unwind that effort.
“The #Trump administration knows what’s going to happen to these folks. They’re not stupid. They understand that the #Taliban is going to kill them when they get back to #Afghanistan,” Zeller said. “They just don’t care.”
Zia worked as an #interpreter & cultural adviser at Camp Mike Spann in Mazar-e Sharif, #Afghanistan, from about 2005 until 2009, Petersen, his attorney, told The Post.
Because of his work, Zia “suffered & continues to suffer threats to the life & property of himself & his family members by enemy forces & criminal elements,” says a recommendation letter from a supervisor who oversaw Zia’s interpreter work.
They point to the arrests of Zia, 36, and Sayed Naser, 33, whose attorneys argue they followed proper #immigration processes. The Post agreed to withhold the last names of both men because of the ongoing threats to their lives from the #Taliban.
“Zia is not an outlier,” his attorney Lauren Cundick Petersen said during a news conference last month. “We’re witnessing the deliberate redefinition of legal entry as illegal for the purpose of meeting enforcement quotas.”
Matt Zeller, an #Army veteran whose #Afghan interpreter saved his life in a 2008 firefight, co-founded the nonprofit No One Left Behind to help resettle #Afghans. He said he fears the #immigration crackdown will unwind that effort.
“The #Trump administration knows what’s going to happen to these folks. They’re not stupid. They understand that the #Taliban is going to kill them when they get back to #Afghanistan,” Zeller said. “They just don’t care.”
One former interpreter for US forces in #Afghanistan was detained by ICE agents in Connecticut last month after he showed up for a routine green card appointment. A second was arrested in June, just minutes after attending his first #asylum hearing in San Diego.
#law#Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/03/afghanistan-immigrants-trump-deportations/
As the admin seeks to fulfill #Trump’s pledge to carry out the largest #deportation op in #US history, attys for the men say their clients — #Afghans who fear retribution from the #Taliban for their work assisting the US in its 20-yr war in #Afghanistan — have found themselves in the crosshairs of #ICE. The attys provided WaPo with #military #contracts & certificates, #asylum & #visa applications, recommendation letters & other records that described both men’s work on behalf of #USmilitary….
One former interpreter for US forces in #Afghanistan was detained by ICE agents in Connecticut last month after he showed up for a routine green card appointment. A second was arrested in June, just minutes after attending his first #asylum hearing in San Diego.
#law#Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/03/afghanistan-immigrants-trump-deportations/
Dokumentierte Fälle von Mord, Folter und anderen Menschenrechtsverletzungen an Flüchtlingen, die in das Afghanistan der Taliban abgeschoben wurden:
Abschiebungen nach #Afghanistan
Taliban-Übergriffe gegen Abgeschobene
https://taz.de/Abschiebungen-nach-Afghanistan/!6103798/
#Migration#Abschiebung#StopDeportation#Refugees #Taliban#Folter#Antireport
Iran has embarked on a massive deportation drive of the country’s 3 million-plus population of Afghan refugees, some of whom authorities say aided Israel’s airstrikes on the country last month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/28/world/politics/iran-afghans-israel-spying/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #afghanistan #israel #espionage #middleeast #taliban
Dokumentierte Fälle von Mord, Folter und anderen Menschenrechtsverletzungen an Flüchtlingen, die in das Afghanistan der Taliban abgeschoben wurden:
Abschiebungen nach #Afghanistan
Taliban-Übergriffe gegen Abgeschobene
https://taz.de/Abschiebungen-nach-Afghanistan/!6103798/
#Migration#Abschiebung#StopDeportation#Refugees #Taliban#Folter#Antireport
Days before U.S. President Donald Trump said he would help Afghan evacuees who fled their country and were stuck in the United Arab Emirates, the Emirati government had already begun returning them to Afghanistan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/world/politics/trump-afghans-uae-evacuees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #uae #afghanistan #refugees #taliban #us #donaldtrump #middleeast
It's being reported that Kabul is literally running out of water over time due to a mix of climate change and appalling mismanagement:
Learning a famous game, Pax Pamir. #boardgames #history #afghanistan
Deutschland fängt sich einen Tadel von der UNO ein, weil wir einen Innenminister Dobrindt haben, der sich einen Dreck um geltendes Recht schert.
Zeit, an die #Remonstrationspflicht zu erinnern! Die besagt, dass Beamt:innen die Pflicht haben, sich rechtswidrigen Anordnungen zu widersetzen.
Der UN-Hochkommissar für Flüchtlinge, Volker Türk, kritisierte jegliche Abschiebungen von Afghanen in ihr Heimatland scharf. "Türk fordert einen sofortigen Stopp der gewaltsamen Rückführung aller afghanischen Flüchtlinge und Asylsuchenden, insbesondere derjenigen, denen bei ihrer Rückkehr Verfolgung, willkürliche Inhaftierung oder Folter drohen", teilte sein Büro mit.
Die Kritik gelte auch für Deutschland, sagte die Sprecherin des Büros, Ravina Shamdasani, auf Nachfrage. "Menschen sollten nicht nach Afghanistan zurückgeschickt werden", sagte sie. Vielen drohten dort Folter, unmenschliche Behandlung und Bestrafung. Zudem sei die humanitäre Lage verheerend.
Quelle: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/abschiebungen-afghanistan-reaktionen-100.html
Deutschland fängt sich einen Tadel von der UNO ein, weil wir einen Innenminister Dobrindt haben, der sich einen Dreck um geltendes Recht schert.
Zeit, an die #Remonstrationspflicht zu erinnern! Die besagt, dass Beamt:innen die Pflicht haben, sich rechtswidrigen Anordnungen zu widersetzen.
Der UN-Hochkommissar für Flüchtlinge, Volker Türk, kritisierte jegliche Abschiebungen von Afghanen in ihr Heimatland scharf. "Türk fordert einen sofortigen Stopp der gewaltsamen Rückführung aller afghanischen Flüchtlinge und Asylsuchenden, insbesondere derjenigen, denen bei ihrer Rückkehr Verfolgung, willkürliche Inhaftierung oder Folter drohen", teilte sein Büro mit.
Die Kritik gelte auch für Deutschland, sagte die Sprecherin des Büros, Ravina Shamdasani, auf Nachfrage. "Menschen sollten nicht nach Afghanistan zurückgeschickt werden", sagte sie. Vielen drohten dort Folter, unmenschliche Behandlung und Bestrafung. Zudem sei die humanitäre Lage verheerend.
Quelle: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/abschiebungen-afghanistan-reaktionen-100.html
Britain set up a secret plan to bring thousands of Afghans to the U.K. after their details were disclosed in one of the country's worst-ever data breaches, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/world/afghans-britain-data-leak/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #uk #afghanistan #taliban
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