'We're here to help you.' What Afghan Americans want refugees fleeing the Taliban to know

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What Afghan Americans want refugees to know as they resettle in the US

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this week that the United States will have brought approximately 60,000 Afghans to America the end of the month. Since the Biden administration's withdrawal in August, refugees have started to arrive at military bases and temporary centers in Virginia, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, New Mexico and Wisconsin.

In Los Angeles, Wardak and her family found a tight-knit Afghan refugee community that celebrated birthdays together and supported each other"because we had nobody else," she said.Wardak wants incoming Afghan refugees to know that,"If you're in America, you're on stolen land. They got this country through violence, they didn't get it in a way that's moral ... you have more of a right to be here.

 

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