‘They Will Kill Us’: Afghan Translators Plead for Delayed U.S. Visas

Andrew Quilty for The New York Times

Posted Tuesday, August 9, 2016 3:38 pm

EMMARIE HUETTEMAN (via nytimes.com)

Translators, now facing Taliban threats, said the United States promised to keep them safe. Congress is bickering over the program meant to be their deliverance.

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Translation and Interpreters, Afghanistan, Visas, Republican Party, United States Politics and Government, Immigration and Emigration, United States Defense and Military Forces, Afghanistan War (2001-14), Muslims and Islam, House of Representatives, Taliban, United States