Lawyers say people ‘don’t feel safe to leave their home’ as officials target recent arrivals and those awaiting hearings

Immigration agents appear to be increasingly arresting and detaining Afghan asylum seekers, especially men, who have arrived in the US recently and are awaiting court hearings to decide their cases.

Amir – an asylum seeker who came to the US via Mexico in 2024 – was driving home from his English class in Bloomington, Indiana just after noon on Monday, when he was pulled over by an unmarked police vehicle. Minutes later, the asylum seeker from Afghanistan was cuffed and driven to a detention center.

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© Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP

© Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP

Sen. Tom Cotton calls West Virginia National Guard attack preventable, linking assault on Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe to Afghan evacuee vetting.

Interior ministry will tell 640 people awaiting sanctuary ‘there is no longer any political interest in their being admitted’

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Hundreds of Afghans previously promised sanctuary in Germany have been told they are no longer welcome, in a stark U-turn by the conservative chancellor, Friedrich Merz‪.

The 640 people in Pakistan awaiting resettlement – many of whom worked for the German military during the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan – will no longer be taken in, as Merz’s government axes two programmes introduced by its centre-left-led predecessor.

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Rep. Bennie Thompson faced criticism for calling the shooting of National Guardsmen by Afghan refugee an 'unfortunate accident' during a House hearing.

Barred from leaving Romania, Andrew Tate courted powerful figures on the American right, from Tucker Carlson to Barron Trump. Then an extraordinary order let him go.