![]() More than 88,500 Afghans who worked with American soldiers as translators and in other capacities since 2001 have arrived in the U.S. “I do think that our government needs to take responsibility and figure out how to fix it, because these are people who helped us,” said Debbie Berman, an attorney with the Chicago-based law firm Jenner & Block that’s representing Afghans still trying to flee their country. as well as by immigration activists, attorneys and others, who ask that those who were evacuated from Afghanistan receive permanent legal status and those left behind be given a path to safety. It’s fear and frustration felt by other Afghans in the U.S. I don’t know what this government, what the United States (will) do with me,” Wasi Safi said. And he feels powerless to help his parents and other siblings, who have been threatened back in Afghanistan. There’s also the uncertainty of whether he’ll be granted asylum. ![]() His mind races with worry about his health. But dentist Michael Wisnoski still reassured him, telling him it was going to be an “easy day.” He got two fillings but more complicated dental work loomed ahead.Įasy days for Wasi Safi have been few. ![]() Wasi Safi didn’t appear nervous during his visit to the San José Clinic, a facility that serves low income and uninsured individuals. A brutal beating by police officers in Panama severely damaged his teeth and jaw and left him with permanent hearing loss. He eventually made it after crossing 10 countries, but the journey came at a high cost. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, fear of retribution from the Taliban for sharing information with American soldiers while he was an intelligence officer drove Wasi Safi to flee to Brazil. It was a scene thousands of miles from the places he’d been the past two years.Īfter the U.S. The former Afghan soldier, called Wasi by family and friends, sat in a dental chair and conversed in Pashto with his older brother Sami as Carrie Underwood’s “Cowboy Casanova” played in the background. HOUSTON (AP) - The April visit to a Houston clinic was just one of a never-ending assembly line of medical appointments Abdul Wasi Safi has had since his January release from an immigration detention center.
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