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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Joseph Stepansky

Afghans in US mark Taliban Kabul takeover amid Trump immigration crackdown

A photo provided by US Marines Corps shows families walking towards an evacuation flight at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan in August, 2021 [The Associated Press]

Four years have passed since Hanifa Girowal fled Afghanistan on a US evacuation flight. But every August, her mind returns to the same place.

Like many Afghans evacuated amid the August 15 Taliban takeover of Kabul, Girowal, who worked in human rights under the former Afghan government, still remains stuck in “legal limbo” in the United States. She is steadfastly pursuing a more stable status in the US, even as the political landscape surrounding her, and thousands of other Afghans in similar situations, shifts.

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