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full screen Camp for Afghan refugees in New Jersey. File photo from 2021. Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP/TT
Thousands of refugees who have received permission to travel to the United States are stopped from entering the country.
That is the meaning of one of the decrees that newly elected President Donald Trump wrote during his first day on the job. It was previously stated that refugees would be allowed entry until January 27, a window that has now closed.
The authority that administers the process states, according to AP, that all “refugee arrivals to the United States are suspended until further notice.”
The refugees who applied for permission to come to the United States and booked tickets are now stranded. This applies, among other things, to roughly 1,600 Afghans who either themselves or whose relatives worked for the US military and were given residence permits after the US left Afghanistan when the Taliban regime took back power in 2021.