Afghan legal professionals face deadly threats, but a federal injunction and a last-minute boarding letter helped one family escape. Thousands more remain in limbo.

“This is how freedom looks like,” Hadi said to his wife. “There’s no police coming for you, and there’s no fear of being deported to Afghanistan.”

The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office is participating in a program that helps Afghan prosecutors escape to safety.

In a statement, the Taliban Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said that over 2,859 Afghan refugees were repatriated from Iran via the Islam Qala crossing point on Monday.

The barren desert plain among the mountains of eastern Afghanistan is filled with hundreds of thousands of people.

Islamabad, Pakistan – The Pakistani government has announced that undocumented Afghans awaiting paperwork to resettle to a third country will be allowed to stay in Pakistan for two more months.