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Witnesses urge U.S. to restore CARE office, TPS and SIV pathways as Pakistan deportations of Afghans rise
Summary
Human rights witnesses told a congressional hearing that Pakistan’s phased deportation plan and forcible returns have sent more than a million Afghans home and that the United States should restore the CARE office, extend temporary protected status and resume refugee processing for Afghans with pending Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs).
“Since then, more than a million Afghan nationals have been forcibly returned to Afghanistan,” Ben Linden of Amnesty International told the commission as he described Pakistan’s 2023 deportation plan and the humanitarian risks he said deportations posed to Afghans.
Linden and other witnesses urged Congress to restore programs and processing that helped resettle Afghans at risk. They called for reconstituting the State Department’s CARE office and…
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