Members of Congress and advocates warn that returning people to their home countries could be a death sentence
Dozens of Afghans who are currently in the US but fear being deported back to Afghanistan along with a larger group and possibly killed by the Taliban are experiencing “fragile relief” this weekend after it appeared that the Trump administration had put on hold plans to remove them within days.
Members of Congress and advocates have repeatedly warned that the deportations could effectively be a death sentence.
A flight originally scheduled to transport the group out of the US on election day earlier this month had stayed grounded after a federal judge issued a court order temporarily blocking its departure to Afghanistan or neighboring Pakistan. The whole group numbers more than 150 Afghans, the New York Times reported. And the AP previously reported that the federal government intends to route these detainees to their home country via Pakistan.
Then, as the temporary court order expired last weekend, immigration advocates battling to prevent the deportations talked of dreading that the detainees could be forced to leave the US during the week of 16 November .
