WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:06:27" NOTE recognizability:0.856 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.855293201428571 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.672 Outside the Kabul airport, NOTE Confidence: 0.855293201428571 00:00:01.672 --> 00:00:02.926 thousands still waiting, NOTE Confidence: 0.855293201428571 00:00:02.930 --> 00:00:04.430 hoping to get inside and to NOTE Confidence: 0.855293201428571 00:00:04.430 --> 00:00:06.158 get out of flight as children NOTE Confidence: 0.855293201428571 00:00:06.158 --> 00:00:07.978 have been separated from their NOTE Confidence: 0.855293201428571 00:00:07.978 --> 00:00:09.490 parents in crushing crowd. NOTE Confidence: 0.878676538571429 00:00:13.970 --> 00:00:16.007 In a home in Del Paso Heights, NOTE Confidence: 0.878676538571429 00:00:16.010 --> 00:00:18.165 Afghanistan isn't a forgotten headline NOTE Confidence: 0.878676538571429 00:00:18.165 --> 00:00:21.309 or a country in crisis a world away, NOTE Confidence: 0.878676538571429 00:00:21.310 --> 00:00:24.240 but a constant presence like NOTE Confidence: 0.74207512 00:00:24.310 --> 00:00:25.910 those video he every day, NOTE Confidence: 0.74207512 00:00:25.910 --> 00:00:29.038 he said. This is their housing. NOTE Confidence: 0.82784557625 00:00:29.110 --> 00:00:31.774 Every day a new video from her brother. NOTE Confidence: 0.617183576 00:00:32.310 --> 00:00:33.860 These are the Taliban, the NOTE Confidence: 0.911359558 00:00:33.870 --> 00:00:35.694 Taliban searching outside. NOTE Confidence: 0.911359558 00:00:35.694 --> 00:00:38.518 For him, she would dig in. NOTE Confidence: 0.911359558 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:39.414 Sarah's brother, mother, NOTE Confidence: 0.911359558 00:00:39.414 --> 00:00:41.202 sister in law and niece are NOTE Confidence: 0.911359558 00:00:41.202 --> 00:00:42.890 all in hiding in Afghanistan. NOTE Confidence: 0.911359558 00:00:42.890 --> 00:00:44.610 All because her brother spent NOTE Confidence: 0.911359558 00:00:44.610 --> 00:00:46.330 the last 10 years working NOTE Confidence: 0.911359558 00:00:46.395 --> 00:00:48.145 for the United States troops NOTE Confidence: 0.911359558 00:00:48.145 --> 00:00:49.895 as a driver and translator. NOTE Confidence: 0.86297864625 00:00:50.530 --> 00:00:52.978 3/4 times they tried to kill my brother NOTE Confidence: 0.754869808 00:00:53.050 --> 00:00:54.880 out of concern of retaliation. NOTE Confidence: 0.754869808 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:56.662 She asked us to hide her NOTE Confidence: 0.754869808 00:00:56.662 --> 00:00:58.170 identity so we'll call her. NOTE Confidence: 0.754869808 00:00:58.170 --> 00:01:01.180 Sarah in 2017 Sarah and her husband NOTE Confidence: 0.754869808 00:01:01.180 --> 00:01:02.470 immigrated from Afghanistan NOTE Confidence: 0.754869808 00:01:02.546 --> 00:01:04.556 to Sacramento because of her NOTE Confidence: 0.754869808 00:01:04.556 --> 00:01:06.930 husband's work with U.S. forces, NOTE Confidence: 0.558793235625 00:01:07.270 --> 00:01:10.918 he came by his IV Special immigrant visa. NOTE Confidence: 0.859032574736842 00:01:11.350 --> 00:01:13.132 She assumed the same would happen NOTE Confidence: 0.859032574736842 00:01:13.132 --> 00:01:15.298 for her family as her father and NOTE Confidence: 0.859032574736842 00:01:15.298 --> 00:01:17.122 brother also worked with the US. NOTE Confidence: 0.859032574736842 00:01:17.130 --> 00:01:18.678 But tragedy struck NOTE Confidence: 0.796986784 00:01:18.870 --> 00:01:21.690 Taliban killed him in 2018. NOTE Confidence: 0.84482333 00:01:21.700 --> 00:01:24.348 These images provided to us by Sarah too. NOTE Confidence: 0.84482333 00:01:24.350 --> 00:01:26.125 Graphic to show without blurring NOTE Confidence: 0.84482333 00:01:26.125 --> 00:01:28.400 show the aftermath of her father. NOTE Confidence: 0.84482333 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:29.580 Who was killed by the NOTE Confidence: 0.84482333 00:01:29.580 --> 00:01:31.100 Taliban on his way to work? NOTE Confidence: 0.873226386666667 00:01:31.250 --> 00:01:32.210 Are you scared NOTE Confidence: 0.762934663333333 00:01:32.220 --> 00:01:34.448 that what happened to your father NOTE Confidence: 0.762934663333333 00:01:34.448 --> 00:01:36.996 will happen to other family members? NOTE Confidence: 0.762934663333333 00:01:36.996 --> 00:01:39.328 Yeah, you know, right now I'm scared NOTE Confidence: 0.923538768181818 00:01:39.390 --> 00:01:41.190 after her father's death, her NOTE Confidence: 0.923538768181818 00:01:41.190 --> 00:01:43.700 family decided to flee on foot, from NOTE Confidence: 0.89123992 00:01:43.710 --> 00:01:46.242 Afghanistan to Iran and from Iran NOTE Confidence: 0.89123992 00:01:46.242 --> 00:01:48.918 to Turkey. Like illegal by Monte NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:01:49.050 --> 00:01:50.625 around 1400 mile. NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:01:50.625 --> 00:01:53.250 Two week journey in freezing NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:01:53.250 --> 00:01:55.486 winter conditions like 2 weeks. NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:01:55.486 --> 00:01:57.152 Nothings to eat when they NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:01:57.152 --> 00:01:58.407 got to the Turkish border. NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:01:58.410 --> 00:01:59.718 They were refused entry NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:01:59.718 --> 00:02:01.353 and forced to turn back, NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:03.502 returning to chaos as the US NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:03.502 --> 00:02:04.930 withdrew and Taliban swiftly NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:04.993 --> 00:02:06.943 took over in their last effort NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:06.943 --> 00:02:09.213 to escape her sisters went to the NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:09.213 --> 00:02:11.013 Kabul airport and were able to NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:11.013 --> 00:02:12.727 board American military planes. NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:12.727 --> 00:02:14.603 They've since been reunited NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:14.603 --> 00:02:17.039 with Sarah here in Sacramento, NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:18.792 helping her take care of her NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:18.792 --> 00:02:21.072 two sons and have been granted NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:21.072 --> 00:02:22.120 humanitarian parole. NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:24.256 Other Afghans that made it to the US NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:24.256 --> 00:02:26.438 were given temporary protective status. NOTE Confidence: 0.869658409090909 00:02:26.440 --> 00:02:27.649 On March 15th. NOTE Confidence: 0.889112793181818 00:02:27.660 --> 00:02:28.636 The president. NOTE Confidence: 0.889112793181818 00:02:28.636 --> 00:02:31.076 Has the authority to designate NOTE Confidence: 0.889112793181818 00:02:31.076 --> 00:02:33.160 specific groups of people, NOTE Confidence: 0.889112793181818 00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:35.128 usually based on nationality, NOTE Confidence: 0.889112793181818 00:02:35.128 --> 00:02:37.588 that are considered to be NOTE Confidence: 0.889112793181818 00:02:37.588 --> 00:02:39.670 facing collective harms NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:39.740 --> 00:02:41.915 temporary protected status is only NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:41.915 --> 00:02:44.500 for those already on American soil. NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:44.500 --> 00:02:46.215 It allows them to stay live and NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:46.215 --> 00:02:48.359 work for a limited period of time, NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:49.944 typically 18 months. NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:49.944 --> 00:02:52.584 the US fully withdrew from NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:52.584 --> 00:02:54.706 Afghanistan in August 2021. NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:54.706 --> 00:02:56.570 Russia invaded Ukraine six NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:56.570 --> 00:02:59.347 months later in February of 2022. NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:02:59.347 --> 00:03:01.582 Yet protected status for Afghans NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:03:01.582 --> 00:03:04.090 came twelve days after Ukrainians NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:03:04.090 --> 00:03:06.670 were offered refugee protections. NOTE Confidence: 0.944015926363636 00:03:06.670 --> 00:03:07.210 Well, I think NOTE Confidence: 0.942452588 00:03:07.220 --> 00:03:10.011 it's really gratifying to see a NOTE Confidence: 0.942452588 00:03:10.011 --> 00:03:12.116 different response to the Ukrainian NOTE Confidence: 0.942452588 00:03:12.116 --> 00:03:13.800 refugee crisis because it's NOTE Confidence: 0.942452588 00:03:13.868 --> 00:03:15.743 important to understand that the NOTE Confidence: 0.942452588 00:03:15.743 --> 00:03:18.171 status quo of the refugee situation NOTE Confidence: 0.942452588 00:03:18.171 --> 00:03:20.460 was already frankly broken, she NOTE Confidence: 0.895341868 00:03:20.470 --> 00:03:22.530 said there's nearly 27 million NOTE Confidence: 0.895341868 00:03:22.530 --> 00:03:24.590 displaced refugees in the world, NOTE Confidence: 0.895341868 00:03:24.590 --> 00:03:26.830 and fewer than 1% permanently NOTE Confidence: 0.895341868 00:03:26.830 --> 00:03:29.690 resettle the US taking quick action. NOTE Confidence: 0.895341868 00:03:29.690 --> 00:03:31.124 And granting Ukraine NOTE Confidence: 0.895341868 00:03:31.124 --> 00:03:32.810 protected status helps, but NOTE Confidence: 0.920774877692308 00:03:32.820 --> 00:03:35.564 it raises questions for me about what to NOTE Confidence: 0.920774877692308 00:03:35.564 --> 00:03:38.540 do with preexisting refugee situations, NOTE Confidence: 0.920774877692308 00:03:38.540 --> 00:03:40.020 and that are still ongoing. NOTE Confidence: 0.920774877692308 00:03:40.020 --> 00:03:42.105 The Ukrainian displacement has been NOTE Confidence: 0.920774877692308 00:03:42.105 --> 00:03:44.150 the fastest, but is not the largest, NOTE Confidence: 0.860531942 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.554 she said. The three top refugee NOTE Confidence: 0.860531942 00:03:46.554 --> 00:03:48.568 communities in the world include NOTE Confidence: 0.860531942 00:03:48.568 --> 00:03:50.870 Syrians Venezuelans and Afghans. Our NOTE Confidence: 0.932997394090909 00:03:50.880 --> 00:03:52.492 responses to Ukrainians should NOTE Confidence: 0.932997394090909 00:03:52.492 --> 00:03:55.399 help us reflect on what we could NOTE Confidence: 0.932997394090909 00:03:55.399 --> 00:03:57.859 do for other communities that are NOTE Confidence: 0.932997394090909 00:03:57.859 --> 00:04:00.089 also facing severe human rights. NOTE Confidence: 0.932997394090909 00:04:00.090 --> 00:04:02.229 Concerns and experiences. NOTE Confidence: 0.87493694625 00:04:02.660 --> 00:04:04.745 She estimates protected status will NOTE Confidence: 0.87493694625 00:04:04.745 --> 00:04:06.834 be granted to 74,000 Ukrainians NOTE Confidence: 0.87493694625 00:04:06.834 --> 00:04:09.336 and around the same for Afghans, NOTE Confidence: 0.87493694625 00:04:09.340 --> 00:04:12.680 so 148,000 between the two groups, NOTE Confidence: 0.87493694625 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.200 not including those under other visas. NOTE Confidence: 0.87493694625 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:16.829 Unlike humanitarian parole, NOTE Confidence: 0.87493694625 00:04:16.829 --> 00:04:18.458 temporary protected status NOTE Confidence: 0.87493694625 00:04:18.458 --> 00:04:21.090 applications are simpler and faster NOTE Confidence: 0.90185301625 00:04:21.400 --> 00:04:23.448 so that I think is a huge advantage, NOTE Confidence: 0.914786026666667 00:04:23.540 --> 00:04:25.412 but the disadvantage is for those NOTE Confidence: 0.914786026666667 00:04:25.412 --> 00:04:27.890 not yet in the United States. One NOTE Confidence: 0.774095283076923 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:29.240 of the complexities right is NOTE Confidence: 0.774095283076923 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:30.950 that TPS doesn't help the people NOTE Confidence: 0.774095283076923 00:04:30.950 --> 00:04:32.780 who've left. Tying directly NOTE Confidence: 0.823715851666667 00:04:32.850 --> 00:04:34.230 like Sarah's brother. NOTE Confidence: 0.823715851666667 00:04:34.230 --> 00:04:36.297 Unlike his sisters, he didn't have NOTE Confidence: 0.823715851666667 00:04:36.297 --> 00:04:38.220 a choice to go to the chaotic Kabul NOTE Confidence: 0.787837341428571 00:04:38.230 --> 00:04:41.240 Airport. He has a one disabled child. NOTE Confidence: 0.889427871538461 00:04:41.310 --> 00:04:43.210 That's why Sarah filed for NOTE Confidence: 0.889427871538461 00:04:43.210 --> 00:04:44.730 humanitarian parole for her NOTE Confidence: 0.889427871538461 00:04:44.730 --> 00:04:46.360 remaining family members there NOTE Confidence: 0.842655288 00:04:46.540 --> 00:04:49.179 you have all the proof, all the paperwork, NOTE Confidence: 0.82228939 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:51.200 each application took time NOTE Confidence: 0.806320305238095 00:04:51.290 --> 00:04:54.554 on one application we spent more than a NOTE Confidence: 0.806320305238095 00:04:54.554 --> 00:04:57.408 week's expertise and showed them to the NOTE Confidence: 0.806320305238095 00:04:57.408 --> 00:04:59.960 attorney to check everything is correct NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:00.020 --> 00:05:02.840 and money 5. NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:02.840 --> 00:05:06.125 $175 is what it cost to file a single NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:06.125 --> 00:05:07.949 humanitarian parole application, NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:07.950 --> 00:05:11.270 according to USCIS since July 2021. NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:11.270 --> 00:05:14.700 They received more than 45,000 requests for NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:14.700 --> 00:05:17.350 humanitarian parole from Afghan nationals. NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:17.350 --> 00:05:20.150 That's more than $25.8 million. NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:20.150 --> 00:05:22.098 They've collected an application NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:22.098 --> 00:05:25.674 fees as of April 25th, 2022. NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:25.674 --> 00:05:28.110 They've denied approximately NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:28.110 --> 00:05:32.010 2250 while approving only 270. NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:32.010 --> 00:05:34.866 That means US CI has made nearly NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:34.870 --> 00:05:38.155 $1.3 million in denying Afghans NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:38.155 --> 00:05:40.783 humanitarian parole applications and NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:40.783 --> 00:05:43.629 approving just over half a percent. NOTE Confidence: 0.747984646666667 00:05:43.630 --> 00:05:44.000 More NOTE Confidence: 0.90442152 00:05:44.010 --> 00:05:47.640 than 3000, we pay for more than 5%. NOTE Confidence: 0.868309499 00:05:47.810 --> 00:05:49.322 The application fee for NOTE Confidence: 0.868309499 00:05:49.322 --> 00:05:51.590 Sarah's family was a hefty sum, NOTE Confidence: 0.868309499 00:05:51.590 --> 00:05:54.047 but since filing nearly six months ago, NOTE Confidence: 0.868309499 00:05:54.050 --> 00:05:55.766 the only response has been a NOTE Confidence: 0.868309499 00:05:55.766 --> 00:05:57.520 letter saying it's been processed. NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:00.424 For Immigration Services specifically NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:06:00.424 --> 00:06:03.676 to just be met by silence, kind of. NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:06:03.676 --> 00:06:05.764 What's your message specifically to them? NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:06:05.770 --> 00:06:07.884 I don't know why they knocked respond. NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:06:07.890 --> 00:06:10.345 It's like like they doesn't NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:06:10.345 --> 00:06:12.309 care about those applications. NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:06:12.310 --> 00:06:15.306 I will keep fighting with my brother NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:06:15.306 --> 00:06:17.008 application because he really NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:06:17.008 --> 00:06:19.720 service for a long time for the US, NOTE Confidence: 0.863578229 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:21.928 but he is still live beyond it against.