{"id":78798,"date":"2025-07-20T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78798\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:51:09","slug":"afghan-advocacy-group-says-trump-offer-to-help-welcome-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78798\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan advocacy group says Trump offer to help ‘welcome surprise’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Afghan<\/a>Joel Anderson speaks before those gathered at the USS Midway in 2023. (File photo courtesy AfghanEvac)<\/p>\n

A San Diego group<\/a> that supports the resettlement of Afghan wartime allies in the United States Sunday said President Donald Trump\u2019s offer to help Afghans stranded in the United Arab Emirates is a \u201cwelcome surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis words \u2014 `I will try to save them, starting right now\u2019 \u2014\u00a0\u00a0could mean the difference between life and death for the brave Afghan men, women and children currently stuck in the UAE, in Qatar and elsewhere around the world, \u201d AfghanEvac officials said in a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform Sunday that he \u201cwill try to save\u201d Afghans who have been \u201cdetained in the United Arab Emirates for years after fleeing their country when the United States pulled out and the Taliban took power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge President Trump to follow through on this commitment \u2014 not just with a Truth Social post, but with action,\u201d AfghanEvac added. \u201cThat means working to immediately secure protections and departures for the Afghans at the Emirates Humanitarian City in UAE and Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar, and ensuring they are not deported back into the hands of the Taliban.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a nonprofit group formed after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, AfghanEvac describes itself as administering a coalition \u201cfocused on deconflicting communications, effort and systemic issues across the full enterprise of efforts focused on helping Afghans evacuate and resettle safely, swiftly and within the bounds of the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also means addressing the broader pipeline: tens of thousands of U.S.-affiliated Afghans who remain in danger across the globe \u2014 from Islamabad to Istanbul, from Albania to Africa \u2014 because they believed in America and helped our forces in their hour of need,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

Last month, AfghanEvac said it was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d over federal immigration officials\u2019 arrest and detainment of a former Afghan National Army soldier in Texas. The man, whose name was unavailable, \u201chad previously been granted asylum protections, but those were revoked under the (Trump) administration\u2019s new executive orders,\u201d the group stated.<\/p>\n

Shawn VanDiver, AfghanEvac president and board chairman, said earlier that he met with Democratic U.S. Rep. Scott Peters of San Diego regarding the Afghan soldier\u2019s situation.<\/p>\n

Trump \u201chas the authority to do the right thing,\u201d the group said. \u201cHe should instruct the (U.S. Department of Homeland Security) and the Department of State to expedite processing, push for third-country partnerships and ensure that we never again leave our wartime allies behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

AfghanEvac said it welcomes \u201cany step that brings our Afghan allies closer to safety \u2014 and we are ready to work with anyone, including the president, to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Anderson speaks before those gathered at the USS Midway in 2023. (File photo courtesy AfghanEvac) A San…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[54371,7574,5229,1582,276,3549,7264,4352,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-78798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-afghanevac","9":"tag-afghanistan","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-trump-administration","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114887306986250386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}