Afghanistan, April 30 -- A group of 22 U.S. senators has urged the administration of Donald Trump to abandon any plan to transfer Afghan refugees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, warning the move could endanger former U.S. allies.
In a letter dated April 28 to Marco Rubio, lawmakers expressed "deep concern" over reports that more than 1,000 Afghans currently in Qatar may be relocated.
The senators said many of those affected had worked alongside U.S. forces as interpreters, special operations partners, or support staff during the two-decade war, and were promised safe resettlement after the Taliban's return to power in 2021. Forcing them to relocate to a country facing its own humanitarian crisis, they warned, would be a "cruel an...