WASHINGTON ¨C The United States is looking to give former Afghan allies stuck in Qatar a choice between emigrating to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo or returning to their Taliban-ruled homeland, an activist said Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s administration, which has made a sweeping crackdown on immigration a signature policy, had given March 31 as the deadline to close a camp where more than 1,100 Afghans were staying at a former U.S. base in Qatar.
Afghans have been going through the base for processing while seeking to move to the United States, fearing persecution by the Taliban for having worked with U.S. forces before they withdrew and the Western-backed government collapsed in 2021.
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