…to help the Afghans integrate into new communities, the US is relying on a network of refugee resettlement agencies in communities across the country.
That network, however, was decimated during Donald Trump’s presidency and has yet to fully recover. As a result, at the end of January – five months after the evacuation effort from Kabul finished – around 12,500 Afghans were still living on military bases in the US waiting to be matched with resettlement agencies to help them find housing and begin settling in. Following a push from the administration, that number has since fallen to around 4,000…
Source: The New Humanitarian | Why some Afghan evacuees are still in US bases six months on



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