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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Santana

After Trump halted funding for Afghans who helped the US, this group stepped in to help

When Andrew Sullivan thinks of the people his organization has helped resettle in America, one particular story comes to mind: an Afghan man in a wheelchair who was shot through the neck by a member of the Taliban for helping the U.S. during its war in Afghanistan.

“I just think ... Could I live with myself if we send that guy back to Afghanistan?” said Andrew Sullivan, executive director of No One Left Behind. “And I thankfully don’t have to because he made it to northern Virginia.”

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