Afghans in California reeling amid Trump administration travel ban, end of deportation protections

Afghans settled in California, the Trump administration Afghan citizens to the United States due to the increase in the efforts to end the deportation protection due to the increase in the last few months and weeks hugs in the last few months and weeks

This week, despite its efforts to maintain protection, the Trump administration ended the temporary protected status for the Afghans that the US had given the US after the military forces from Afghanistan in Afghanistan in May 2022. The situation allowed the Afghans to come to the United States and get business authority, but it did not provide a way for citizenship.

“People are desperate, Shaw, the founder and president of Afghanevac, a non -profit organization that supports the safe displacement of Afghan allies. “They obeyed all the rules. They did everything the US wanted to do, and in every corner, the Trump administration prevents them.”

The Trump administration suspended Afghan refugee programs in January and canceled the planned flights for the Afghans cleared by the government. In May, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent an agency to the coordinator personnel, who was assigned to work in the United States with the support of the Afghans to the Afghan displacement efforts, known as the Afghans. And in June, Trump launched a travel ban for Afghan citizens by suspending travel to the United States and leaving families to come together to reunite.

The Afghans were more and more caught in the efforts of the Trump administration to increase the exiles. In San Diego, an Afghan citizen who works as a translator for the US army and gave human conditional evacuation He was detained after attending a asylum hearing In the migration court.

The Department of Interior announced in May that it will end the temporary protected status for Afghans. Secretary Kristi Noem said that the conditions in Afghanistan do not meet the requirements for TPS assignment ”.

Inside A press releaseThe department said: “Secretary, in general, in security and economic situations that require Afghan citizens to return to Afghanistan, ongoing armed conflict or extraordinary and temporary conditions did not pose a threat to personal security.”

Many organizations that help to move the Afghans have now criticized the movement, saying that the conditions in Afghanistan under the Taliban were not safe, especially for those who helped the US army during the war. Casa, a national defender organization, filed a lawsuit against DHS, challenging the end of the TPS for the Afghans and Cameroonians.

On Monday, the 4th circuit appeal court rejected the movement of the agency by CASA to postpone the actions of the agency. . The case continues In the US Regional Court in Maryland.

DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLughlin said that individuals coming to TPS can still resort to asylum and other protections. The end of the TPS, “national interests and the legal provision in which TPS is actually designed to be temporary,” he said.

The TPS has been a very important stop for the Afghans for the Afghans for asylum practices that went to the USA but worked with the US government.

The New York City Metropolitan region, defending Afghan refugees and supporting families from Tijuana from Tijuana, and almost all of the organization’s organization said that almost all of the organization is on TPS.

“They’re petrified, Wali Wali said. “They are not sure how to approach this, and to be honest, we are trying to understand how we make them safe when the only thing that protects them without deportation goes.”

The global shelter, a re -settled organization of thousands of Afghan, said that Afghan was vulnerable to the deportation of 11,700 in the USA and that those who do not have other vehicles may lose their business authority to obtain legal status or waiting applications.

Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, the General Manager of the Global Bunker, said, “Ending the TPS is not compatible with the reality of the conditions in Afghanistan,” he said. He said in a statement. “Conditions remain terrible for the allies supporting the US mission, as well as women, girls, religious minorities and ethnic groups targeted by the Taliban. The anxiety between our customers is real and growing.”

Vignarajah, Congress called for citizenship for the Afghans.

The demonstrators protested against a new travel ban on June 9, 2025 at the Los Angeles International Airport on June 9, 2025.

(Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) through Getty Images)

California hosted many Afghan refugees – 58,600 calls the state more than all other states, According to the Institute of Migration Policy. The Great Sacramento region is home to approximately 20,000 Afghan refugees, one of the largest communities in the USA

The city of Fremont, which has a neighborhood known as “Little Kabul için for Afghan shops and restaurants– raised About half a million dollars To help the new Afghans for the Afghan refugee charity fund launched in 2021.

Afghan American defender in the Fremont region, Harris Mojadedi, said there was a deep uncertainty in the midst of the change of immigration policies. The Afghans in the community began to receive self -disabling notifications from DHS, and many of them are struggling to understand what the next step will be.

He knows one of his wife’s TPS and an Afghan couple with the other, a US citizen who lives like the last one every day. Many Afghan are afraid of talking about the government’s fear of ordeal. People said they were afraid to leave their children to school or to call the police.

“Just as we see with other communities, [Afghan] Society, Moj Mojadedi said, referring to migration raids that greatly affect the Latino community.

First, asylum advocate, a lawyer who focuses on legal aid for Afghans in human rights, said Shala Gafary, the United States still saw the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, where thousands of Afghan left. It helped families to move file applications to the USA and reunite with their families within a program facilitated by Biden administration.

However, as soon as Trump enters the office, the US released an order that suspends refugee programs, and canceled flights to re -placed in the US, including the family members of US military personnel who were actively cleared by the US government.

Gafary and other immigration lawyers are calling for what they can do every day. And there’s no answer for them. The only thing they can do is to say that there is no choice to other lawyers who ask their customers what to say.

“It was nothing more than bad news for the Afghan population since January, Gaf said Gafary.

When he returns to Afghanistan, thousands of people living under the Taliban rule are worried about their future. As the neighboring nations began to deport the Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran collectively, the options for making a life elsewhere shrinking exponentially, and Trump placed Afghanistan on the US travel ban on the US travel list earlier this year.

For the Afghan Americans in California, they eagerly waiting for the arrival of relatives looking for asylum in the United States, and Trump’s immigration pressure was crushed.

A resident of a Southern California, 26 -year -old Afghan American woman, Times, including a grandmother and a few cousins, including family members after confirming their visas seven people, but no approval that the United States would allow them. They were planned to come from Afghanistan in March, but not allowed.

The woman who wants to announce anonymity for family members for hoping to seek asylum in the United States, said that her family still hopes that policy would change and that she would be allowed to have no other option.

He said that the young girls in his family could not go to school and another cousin working for an international charity organization is no longer allowed to work.

“Everyone is holding his breath to see what will happen next,” he said. “The best thing we can do is just hoping for the best, doing our best and controlling each other and keeping our heads high.”