Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

oh well that's nice I'm sure people will be eager to cooperate with us next time we have a need for intelligence

So there is literally just zero reason at all that any country would believe anything the USA does or says at this point.

History will not be kind to anybody in this administration. It's pure evil, and intentional.

> After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo, an aid worker briefed on the plan said Tuesday. > The group includes interpreters for the U.S. military, former members of the Afghan Special Operations forces and family members of American service members. More than 400 children are among them. > The Afghans have been living in limbo in Qatar for over a year after being evacuated by the United States for their own safety because they supported American forces during the war against the Taliban that began in 2001. > Shawn VanDiver, the president of the aid group AfghanEvac, said he had been briefed on the Congo plan by State Department officials. He said that the Afghans would be given a choice between returning to live under the Taliban or being sent to Congo, which is suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. > More than 600,000 refugees, mostly from the Central African Republic and Rwanda, are currently in Congo, according to the United Nations. Human rights activists say that the country is not equipped to take in more in the midst of fighting with neighboring Rwanda that has displaced even more people because of attacks on refugee camps. > “We think this is just them wanting to send these people back to Afghanistan, where they know they will face certain death,” said Mr. VanDiver. “They know that Afghans are not going to accept the D.R.C. Why would you go from the world’s No. 1 refugee crisis to the world’s No. 2 refugee crisis?” > The discussions highlight the longstanding tension between America’s commitment to Afghans, who face grave danger in retaliation for helping U.S. forces during the war, and the Trump administration’s promise to curtail immigration. > Much is unknown about the plans taking shape, including whether all the Afghans would go to Congo or whether deals were coming together in other countries. Negotiations like this have stalled before. > A Congolese government spokesman did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. Tommy Pigott, a State Department spokesman, accused the Biden administration of moving hastily in bringing Afghan allies to the United States. He said the Trump administration was working to find options for the remaining Afghans. > “The American people have had to pay the price for the irresponsible way hundreds of thousands of Afghans were brought into the United States,” he said. “Our focus now is on restoring accountability by advancing responsible, voluntary resettlement options.” > American diplomats have been asking countries in Africa to take in the Afghans for months. But talks fell apart in many places, according to Mr. VanDiver and diplomats with knowledge of the discussions. > More than 190,000 Afghans who aided the U.S. effort resettled in the U.S. between August 2021 and mid-2025, after passing background checks. > A group of more than 1,100 Afghans are being housed in a former U.S. military base in Qatar known as Camp As Sayliyah. The American government brought them there in late 2024 and promised them a path to settlement in the United States if they passed further checks. > Qatar was intended as a stopover, but many of the Afghans found themselves in limbo after the Trump administration ended policies that would have enabled resettle to in the U.S. > Some of the people left at the camp have been fully vetted; others have not. But Mr. Trump’s immigration policies have made it impossible for any of them to come to the United States now. The administration said in January that it would close the transit camp without saying what would happen to the people there. > Andrew Sullivan, a military veteran and the executive director of No One Left Behind, a nonprofit group that has been working to resettle Afghans to America, said some had been deemed ineligible for reasons that have nothing to do with national security. For example, one woman turned 21 and is no longer eligible to be included on her father’s visa, he said. > But, he said, the administration has other options available to bring them to the United States, including the ability to issue exemptions to the policy. “Our belief is that if, if they can pass security vetting, they should be coming to the United States,” Mr. Sullivan said. “If they can’t, and they’re not going to come to the United States, I do believe the U.S. government has an obligation to ensure that they’re going to a third country where they’re going to be secure, they’re going to be supported, and there aren’t ongoing humanitarian rights issues.” > American diplomats have been meeting with Democratic Republic of Congo officials for months. Recently, the Trump administration struck an agreement with the country to accept migrants from other countries who face deportation from the United States. Part of that deal included a $50 million grant to the U.N. refugee agency to provide assistance in the country. > Discussions over the Afghans are separate from the deportation deal, but both are outcomes of Mr. Trump’s sharp immigration policy changes. Pranav Baskaran Zolan Kanno-Youngs contributed reporting. Megha Rajagopalan is an international investigative reporter based in London. Eileen Sullivan is a Times reporter covering the changes to the federal work force under the Trump administration.

Goes to show what awaits anyone who helps US troops in the future.

The damage he is doing to our country is immeasurable. He needs to be tried for Treason.

At a previous job we hired a bunch of the guys who had been translators for our soldiers and earned their visa, they were some of the nicest hardest working people I’ve ever met.  Disgusting. 

They should be given US citizenship. They risked their lives to help us, they did what US soldiers do for the US.

We will never have another trustworthy ally again, and we can thank MAGA for it.

MAGA needs to be deported to Russia. They'll love it there.

These people have done more for the US than this lazy tasteless dementing pedophile could conceive of or even accidentally do.

Hey Iranians! Help us overthrow the Ayatollahs and then we might some day deport you to the Congo.

Another degenerate act, seems shocking at first, and then the realization of how normal this sickness has become The best you can hope for is that some more GWOT veterans stop automatically supporting the GOP Speed running the end of global US influence continues

He is an evil shitbag.

“Thank you for your service” - MAGA style.

If your in Iran and thinking of being an interpreter

Sure thing Republicans -just go ahead and stand aside again with your nonexistent dicks in your hands-no way this will come back to bite us in the ass-these people hung basically everything out on the line, including the lives of their families to help our troops, and this is how you would seriously choose to repay them

And then trump and USA wonders why they don't have friends when they want them...

I never understood GWOT standing behind GOP when it’s the GOP that got us into the stupid wars in the first place!

One betrayal after another

Amazing job electing this guy twice guys.

Canadian PM Mark Carney to announce that Canada will be very happy to accept all of those brave and stout-hearted Afghans as fast-track Canadian citizens.

Overt racism is illegal in my country, especially from elected officials. Systemic racism is also investigated. The USA's acceptance of and tolerance of hate speech is sad.

The party of the patriots, my ass. Anyone who supports the Trump regime is a traitor to America.

Orders from Putin: "Remove all softpower your nation has... everywhere"

They did more for this country then he ever will. F*** this guy

America is not trustworthy.

They're somehow trying to blame this on Biden, too. I swear these people can't complete a single f****** sentence without mentioning Obama, the Clintons, or Biden. - Q: Why are you sending these people to their deaths? - A: Biden promised them safety! - Q: Ok. So shouldn't we be granting them safety? I mean...they did help our military. - A: Obamaaaaaaaa Hillary!

Let this be a lesson to everyone. The United States of America are not trustworthy.

That's a great way no one will ever want to help you when invading other countries coz USA just fucks over those who helped.

Some of whom include family members of U.S. service members.

Meanwhile they are accepting hundreds of white South Africans and essentially nobody else.

these people risked their lives helping US forces and this is how they get treated. sending them to congo of all places is genuinely cruel

Deranged predator will not rest until everyone worldwide hates all Americans as much as they hate him personally.

It is amazing how quickly they are turning America’s reputation the shit. We are amazingly weaker already in one year with no real allies. There’s gotta be an economic reckoning coming soon. America’s f’d around and is going to find out.

An absolute shame.

A millionth Evidence that aiding usa / 'mericans in any way shape or form is detrimental for someones life

I’m amazed the US can successfully find collaborators at this point, we treat them like dirt.  Not that we treat our own soldiers much better 

I know fantastic families from that region who aided US troops voluntarily in light of the internal threats they faced. Some of the nicest people on the planet and what do we do in return? We should all question who the bad guys are. Vote and create change!

They should send Trump and his entire clan of degenerates to the Congo

Nothing more dishonorable than a disregard for martial service and promised reciprocity. These people and their families fought for a better Afghanistan and were promised sanctuary by the U.S.. to go back on such agreements and throw honorable people who served for you into the trash is just the highest level of disgrace in my opinion. Trump and his family is literally not worth a single one of the afghans, and I’d trade them in a heart beat. What an utter, utter disgrace

Here's an idea: send Trump to Congo.

This f****** c*** is unbelievable.

Vile regime of a administration

Utterly disgraceful how Trump treats our allies.

Every f****** congress person should be up in arms. If we betray our allies like this - you can bet when they want to do something in Iran with possible saboteurs you can bet there won't be any takers because of shit like this.

We are just speed running being a pariah state at this point.

Can we keep the Afghans and send trump to the Congo?

So unbelievably effed up. If they were white he'd give them a gold card and full citizenship.

Jesus Christ. These people risked their lives for us. This whole administeation is corrupt, heartless, and should be in prison.

I'm just guessing here.... even people in Congo probably don't want to be in Congo? (but I could be wrong)

What for? So we can stab them in the back again? We left so many translators there to die.

So they can’t go back to their country for colluding with the US, and now they’re being repaid by being relocated to another war zone. SMH

My God, a new low. No one will ever cooperate with the US again.

Disloyal, malicious, piece of c***.

Can i go with them? F***. At least id trust them, not this government

1100 people. That is barely even a fraction of a percentage point of the US population. It would cost nothing meaningful to help these people settle in the US, which they were promised for their support in the US's mission. But accepting a single Muslim into this country is unacceptable to this bigoted administration, regardless of what you've done for us. Unless you can pay for Trump's $5 Million citizenship bribe, of course.

This is just so unbelievably and unnecessarily cruel on so many levels, I don’t even know where to begin.

After the Vietnam War, we took in the Hmong and other allies that would likely have been persecuted or killed for supporting us. They settled in America, assimilated, and now I work with many of those people today. Sending similar people that risked their lives to help us to a third nation that has been notoriously unstable is a real slap in the face to them and will set a bad precedent when we need help in the future.

Savage .. he is so reckless

Republicans. Not even once. In 80s-style, red DARE lettering across the screen. That should be the campaign ad for dems going forward. Show an image of an egg frying in an iron skillet in a restaurant with the price for a fried egg reading "$20". Finis. Will they do it? Nope. Palantir and the rest of the authoritarian fascists et al. own the party now.

I don't think he is "In Talks" with anyone, he is just rambling.

I am embarrassed for and of my former colleagues in the US government who worked on this.

What a piece of shit…

Well... At least it's not Chad.

It all starts with a lack of dignity and shame. 

Ah, I see leaving them behind wasn't the worst thing the US could do.

Oh the congo! What a lovely place.

I’m starting to think “Trump in talks with…” just means he’s taking a big ole dementia nap.

I am so sick of this horrible piece of shit JFC

F****** disgusting

Another shameful instance of betrayal.

I met marines who had huge respect for these folks and what they did... the united states is a disgrace

Another back stabbing in progress

And this is how you radical allies, who are well versed in war, and can create a new Islamic state in Africa.

Putin sends message: * work for Russia and in worst case scenario you will have comfortable live in Moscow, like Assad, Yanukovich, Medvechuk etc. * work for US and in best case scenario you will be deported to Congo.

What a complete and total a******.

Betrayer

Bet if they were white Christians they'd be welcome

I hope they f****** put him through committees and send Stephen Miller to the Congo when the Dems win the midterms.

Let that be a lesson to anyone who thinks it might be a good idea to help the yanks.

Meanwhile, Trump: "Why aren't Iranian civilians rebelling? We promised our help! And the Kurds? Why aren't they atfacking? And NATO? Japan? South Korea? Why aren't they sending ships and troops?".

This is the kind of thing that sticks for decades. In my job, if we burn the people who took a risk on us, word gets around fast and nobody trusts your “we’ll take care of you” promises next time. Same logic applies to intel sources and local partners, except the stakes are life and death. Also, sending them to Congo specifically feels like laundering responsibility rather than honoring an obligation we created.