WASHINGTON _ Four years ago, Ahmad Shirin was in his native Afghanistan, fearing that the Taliban would kill him for serving as an interpreter for the U.S. Army, a job dutifully and dangerously carried out for 12 years.
Today, Shirin lives in Charlotte, N.C., thanks to a special visa program for translators and interpreters who assisted U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
That program is now in jeopardy.
