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u. s. troops complete their withdrawal ending a 20 year war. in september of last year, 76000 afghans may well be more well evacuated to the u. s. and temporarily placed in military bases. and that brings us right up to date to where we are now. we're thousands of afghans are struggling as they remain in legal limbo in the united states. i know you are going to have questions, so you tube is active. the comment section is life right now. be part of today's discussion. ah, it is good to see our lineup of afghans telling us what it has been like in the past year for afghans he fled to united states hello, rash, beginner hello. so thankful for you, showing your experiences with us r r r i shout. welcome back to the stream. can you mind?

i would it's who you are. what you do. hi everyone, and thanks for having me on. again, my name is ashley, i'm a community organizer. currently based out of los angeles, but what i do is build community and for the past year or so then has meant welcoming almost 80000 of our new neighbors. people like nickina and hello nickina. welcome to the stream. would you introduce yourself to audi and tell them who you are and, and how you got to the united states in a sentence if that's possible? cuz we're gonna explore that story in more detail in a moment. hello, everyone. thank you so much for having me and your program. i came last year from again the phone and actually it was mother died. it's like i have going on in 21 else. august 21. and i've been doing for 2 days. and after that,

i used to albany, i'm paid for 7 months, and then if i could, to virginia my mind and michelle comes from and then the community or extraordinary journey. thank you again for joining us on the show and allow welcome to the stream. we do to our audience who you will and what you're currently doing in your new home of the united states. thank you very much for me for having me in your program today. i am hello, am i to me, i am women's rights advocate and joining a to the from the in the area i came to the united states just like making last year on august 21st i got into the airport in cobble and i got here around 23rd of august i've been advocating for the rights of my people right now. in dc, i've been advocating for the women's rights and the people who are left behind and

i've kind of, we are asking on this program, guess how guns bearing in the united states, the ones who fled from afghanistan and now trying to make america their home. if you had to use a word, what work would you use to describe this policy of the work you've been doing? it's been extremely challenging. it's been a year full of challenges in which we have welcomed $80000.00 people. you know, it's really hardening to see 80000 people from my home country, but they are here. and quite honestly, they face tremendous challenges. and during $49.00 states include and plus washington d. c. but the amount of difficulties they face as they try to integrate and start to new life has been disappointing. and we have not seen enough support for our community has been left to actually get american community itself and in the african diaspora to help new arrivals integrate, find jobs,

find housing, and find affordable housing, find affordable health care. and that's been tremendously difficult. hello, if you could put some, some bones will not work that are actually use which is challenging. can you tell us one aspect of your relocation that is incredibly challenging that you're still trying to navigate right now? well, if i go with my souls, the experiences that i had a since last august was the experiences which i have never experienced and was the worst experience of my life. the experience of getting out of afghanistan was traumatic in a very hard and difficult to explain in, in 30 minutes. but i can say that since i came to the u. s. a, i have been dealing with the broker. i think a barriers that have that happened there and i'm struggling to get over with it.

for example, it was really hard for me to get a social security number or a work permit and or apply for asylum. and now imagine that i'm someone who knows english who knows about the culture of usa who have travelled a lot of countries, but imagine 79000 people who arrived to the usa and they have, they don't have slightest idea about any of those. and they face all these problems and do not know how to solve. all of them only achieve their so empathy, where people are watching an understanding that it must be really difficult. so for me says, of course it's not going to be easy, even americans aren't finding it easy. the american government should do more. they a cause in these, this problem. anyway, the kina, how much help are you getting from the u. s. government?

because at some point when you move, there's a certain amount of money that you get and then how long does that money? it asked. thank you so much. i want to motion this is regarding hello john shawn. i think last year it was a dark here. we'll get this time. i'm also the people again, i'm also for do the whole if they can, she'd like me to tell people i was waiting for the cases and other countries and the cubs like i was i b o, vanya, and many other countries. they had to process the cases with the people who came to the united states other actually it was me the hard for me like as a woman, activation up guy, this dog. well, my leaders and also as a prosecutor for information on one second floor made up. i got office law closely to hard for me to plug off and leave all of my achievements. and also my all of works in again it's on. i'm just get one back there. i can also left the country

and it was really not easy doing my thing, it up going on. it was just one week to all of the can she was i wasn't, i've got a couple. it was in a strict flow to miles for all of us, and we didn't know what happened to our future, our for our families. then when i enter to the airport, it was also easy because the crowd on most of the sheltering and the people that i entered today. i stayed for night without food. and also without anything you can imagine like it's treat. and there was crowd of people and you can we children and also well man, man, no, it's kerry mccain. you're describing this so vividly this, this whole use, this a nightmare that continues to revisit you because i'm thinking now this is one year

later. does it still stay with you? can you forget that moment? of course not. i think it will be, it will all of my life, i can forget that they that the call will collapse. and also that time i want to call or that they, i was in my office when i had like to call a month to go over the country. and it's still, i remember it's like a nightmare for me, but i'm thinking about my not pulling up kind of they don't have to go to school today because every day i woke up with the news from a guy and also like the what was going on regarding the woman my one year my life, i also want to add a new one. i totally agree that the trauma of couple of days of the fall of our son is going to stay with every single ask and for the rest of their lives. it's a moment, it was a day that the not only lost their country homelands,

but they lost their families, their friends, their jobs, their entire life, wherever they were, they have to start everything from 0 again, whether it was their education, their resettlement, their work, everything. but then when we came to the us, as people who were allies to the us, we came to the us. but we have to, we, we have to and we are still struggling with a lot of things that are happening. and he starting from renting at a place for solve to continuing to go with our jobs. it's extremely hard, extremely challenging, but i'm more than shot. sure that there are a lot of people who care. there are a lot of organizations who are trying their best to make it easier for the, for the new and i was to continue to live,

asked him loosely as possible. i'm just looking at what adam is saying on eugene, i am a say, i'm pretty sure i would struggle if i was sent to afghanistan and had to learn how to live there compared to the way that i lived in the united states. so there's the challenge of learning a new culture or of the bureaucracy of that new culture. and to day we got this headline. and let me show it to you here. my laptop. the u. s. ends one immigration pathway for afghan evacuees shifting to long term strategy. so the way that the gainer and hallel got united states is called humanitarian parole . it's not a typical way for asylum seekers to get citizenship. it's an emergency measure that emergency much it is stopping on october. the 1st we reached out to several people in our big network and asked them what impact that might have all as well. you have a listen to this, and i love you to pick up the back of these videos siggler. this sounds like

another way of closing the door on vulnerable afghans. so all we hope that africans can come here through fast pathways that lead to permanent status. we are concerned that the government is choosing not to use one of the pathways that could quickly bring people to safety. so now it's been about the end of operation allies. welcome in the end to the africa and humanitarian pro program is absolutely devastating. it's devastating for those ones who been working to evacuate, resell afghans for over a year, but it's really devastating to the afghans people left behind. the humanitarian pro program is not perfect. it could be a lot better, but it's been the only tool available to risk afghans to get them out of harm's way and onto a path of safety. what the governments now proposing those atkins do is turn a program like we have a program that are limited in scope and already severely backlogs. i'm really concerned now that the risk atkins that we've left behind are not going to be able

to survive long enough to take advantage of the programs to the government is now trying to push them into. this is going to be an absolute catastrophe. yeah, i hear that here, and i woke up to this news this morning and it's hard to contain my anger to it to be quite fair because the pathway that existed for africans to come to this country at risk afghans, people like the gain and hello john, who stood by america for the past 20 years. you know, that pathway was barely open in the 1st place aside, the program, you know, folks who worked with the united states military went visa program. yeah. correct. under 74000 people in that pipeline who are still awaiting processing and eventually evacuation relocation to united states. there. $66000.00 mediterranean pro applications of which only a $123.00 out of $66123.00 have been accepted while the government diss and ministration has collect the $20000000.00 in fees from our african american

community. one that is deeply under resource by the way. and so it's, it's, it's, it's deeply frustrating to see that ministration closed the door that was barely open at risk and vulnerable africans. and in the 1st place, i want to at some point, so no rush whenever i was saying there's also the discrimination which is going on among the ukrainian refugees and african refugees. and it would be if i don't mention it, i wouldn't. i'm not mentioning it, because i'm quite the credit i using or i'm, i'm putting the blame on you quain, in do fuji's. the way that atkins were brought into the united states were, the process itself was humiliating and, and the policies which were made towards atkins were shaming to the african tours standing by the us the government of yours and trying to implement the u. s. policy

. and i've got some for 20 years, and these are the allies who stood there to protect all americans who went up to them. and now they have come to, you would say, but they're being treated differently than the ukraine, your reference futures. and they're being discriminated against, which is not i don't think it's fair. yeah, i want to be getting what? hello. john paid. i am like kind of when i left them on, i was not sure i didn't know them, but i go i like, you know, i anticipate and i didn't know my future. i'm also my distance, my destination like the next destination. and then i went to the house, so i don't have the mental buddy for building the 7 months. i see the people on money of the people with their comedies and some of those problems. and i've got

some and they came like me alone. so they were going to find a trauma, the depression, and if and that tell you we didn't know what will happen for our future nation ways to make it i was so sorry i just as this gives me one moment cuz we're getting lots of comments from our audience as well. what is your current status? he's going to be sense of not knowing what's going to happen in your future. what's your current status living in the united states right now? so after the one month, so when the beach has came to the to the other one. yeah. so they finished, i came to the genia. and then back time i said one month, one month and welcome from center in virginia. i'm trying to finish my paper work even by my cheek and other things. so i love it hard for all the local country we love like it'll probably be everything all of us. she said like will be

a crappy buddy talk to like, you know, for michelle or our paperwork. so now i think there's also the hospital, those people who are living in camps like they are, they don't have like, you know, that i to go outside of the camp and they are in the ration. and also they are really well. and they don't know what's happened, the future. oh, rich country where i kept them, i'm the list. i think they had like the use for not bring them to the united states . i'm trying to put the properties and also many of the children and also show that they are deprived of the school and they don't know what happened to the future. this is a basis for, i'm also trauma for all of us in country on one side, and also being in this long process that we see the difference between your clarity and i'm a refugee, we're not the only person who's seen that difference between what afghans are going

for and what ukrainians are going through. i want to introduce you to the g, a mini he is part of a group of investigative journalists. he spoke to a program called democracy now quite recently. and he made it very clear that there was a distinct difference between ukrainians. so seeking if i am an african, let's take a look. why are people paying $575.00 for an application fee when ukrainians are they are offered a different program where they, there is no fee. i mean, that comes down to a decision made by the biden administration to say, for afghans. this is the, this is the path for humanitarian parole, but for ukrainians this is the path for humanitarian for all the discrepancy or the idea that here is a program that rolled out months after the departure from cobble. and it's only, it's still only being applied for ukrainians, whereas afghans are still in this, you know, state of limbo. i just think a lot of people in this community in the diaspora, illegal advocates and they just have

a lot of questions to allow. i want to take you back to nasty ly. i'm gonna give you the exact date. this is july, the 8th. this is u. s. president joe biden making a promise hath and listened to this promise. tell me what you think about if he's delivered on it. we're also going to continue to make sure that we take on an afghan nationals who work side by side with us forces, including interpreters and translators, for message to those women. and man is clear, there is a home for you in the united states. if you so choose. and we will stand with you, just as you stood with us. when i listen to this as speech of a jo, widen, last year when to when he was delivering to speech. i then and as i came to the u. s, i see how all these promises are not full thought,

let alone b a. everything that he said, but her not even close to all those people who stowed by the usa were brought to the usa. and even if those who came to the usa, they're still struggling with a legal status. as or as john said a few minutes ago, people who are applying for humanitarian pro visas from afghanistan, only 100 around 100 of those applications were accepted out of 66000 applications. but when we look at that asylum case is, is the same thing going on with asylum. he says, people who hold applied for asylum cases are more than 40000 people who came at recently from afghanistan. and the only applications were accepted were around 200 70. 0, how, how was, how did that explain the situation?

um, it says that people who came here with humanitarian pro visas, their visas are going to expire next year. and they have no other way to settle here, either they have to go back or apply for asylum, and these asylum, a meetings, i am an asylum, and here i got my asylum approved. and i'm one of the luckiest ones. ah, but my asylum interview. it started at 8 am, and at the end of at 3 pm, it's a long interview. and they how they ask you a lot of questions and they ask you for a lot of documentation to prove what you're saying is right. but these people who came to the u. s. a. they only came with one backpack like myself. and so many people burned their dark him and spurned their pictures and all those that they could prove it that they were right. just because they were scared of taliban and

there and they were scared for their lives. but hello john. i would, i would add that, you know, like people, brenda documents, but the united states has adjusted parole and given a pathway to immigrant and diaspora populations in the past, it's done. so for the cubans it's done. so for iraqis, it's done. so for the vietnamese and right now and from the congress, does bipartisan bicameral legislation that would fix this problem. so people like, you know, and how long do not have to undergo their trauma. once again, at a us a silent process by where they can just fill out an application with no fees and that they can start their life and journey here in america. so that the home that escort are actually for if i may just jumping a for a bait, just add a little bit more to what you're saying. the afghan adjustment could solve all the issues pretty much immediately. how often can we say that this is an instant

solution? earlier we spoke to chris, and this is what she told us about that. the bottom line isn't the u. s. me to promise protection and struggling to keep that promise. having yeah, can just wanna get our new afghan neighbors, some really poor to apply directly. and just like the u. s. is done for every other modern, kind of back to me. these are the allies of america has longest war and they deserve more than red tape. and here again, adjustment and how we keep our promise, how we look to our values, and it's how we stand by those who stood with us. so a new chief gas minor says they deserve askance, deserved us citizenship. they helped nato against the taliban. they risk their lives, r u. s. way so much tax income for the military that it is involved in producing refugees abroad instead of supporting us citizens. and there are very few refugees

that the u. s. has to support. i'm just wanting just very briefly in the last one minute of i shall allow have you been treated in the us? the bureaucracy sounds hellish. but how about the people? well, 1st of all, i want to add, i wanna say lake erm to mona road. this comment that i hope that the i use government thought the same way that you're thinking right now i regarding the treatment or from the american citizens. i was surprised and shocked with the great treatment that we received from the people of us. i myself stay where the hoss family right now. they are so lovely. so heart warming in. so kind a to me and from the 1st a day, which was on january that i am staying with them. i till now. and i more allow,

that is yeah, that is where we're going to leave it on a more positive note. but the bureaucracy and the legal system has to be sorting out for afghans who are currently in legal limbo in the united states. thank you. hello, nickina alisha for all of your comments and questions on youtube. i see you next time. take care. ah. a revolution. everything from political activism to incarceration. in part one of the 2 part document p. c. o gives you a rule, explores the single minded june. the 1st leave of an independent body. it's a government as that bag of from prisoner to prison on

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