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Today and we said, we hopepdate you update your politifact because now ityo is very clear e as you said, the department of defense has identified thisthe and now the department of homeland security inspector general hadepartmeitys identifis ying t and i think a key point herehi, and ive been saying this from the very start over a year ago,o laura , they should have tob. go through the siby, the special immigrant visa process, if they would have went through the process, just like the previous ad...

A year ago, the U.S. ended its longest war, with one final evacuation plane out of Kabul. Left behind were tens of thousands of Afghan interpreters who put their lives on the line working for the U.S. military. Now, 12 months later, advocates say most of them are still trapped in Afghanistan, living in fear and poverty.

Last year, the U.S. promised to evacuate all military interpreters, but the country's chaotic exit left most of them behind.

Arise, and the 82nd airborne was the last force left in contact. they pulled back and we were able to -- we were able to get out. unfortunately, as you know, we were not able to bring out everyone we wanted to bring out. we left a lot of afghans behind that we wanted to bring out. i think thats a good thing. theres still people there that wed like to get to that we were not able to do during the period of time that we had to do the evacuation. >> you have said that it haunts you that you werent ...

The united states. they currently do not have the capacity to work because they are here under humanitarian parole, and their status is uncertain going forward. so theres legislation the afghan adjustment act which would allow them to get green cards and put them on the pathway to work in this country and eventually become citizens. and these people who, you know, who interpreters and others who fought alongside us, they might not be american citizens, but theyre american heroes. and we still ha...

During portions of an interview aired on Friday's "NBC Nightly News," an Afghan man who NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs | Clips

During portions of an interview aired on Friday's "NBC Nightly News," an Afghan man who NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs | Clips

It started when "Legend", callsign for a former U.S. Army Staff Sgt., returned to Afghanistan to rescue trapped Americans, Afghan allies, Christians and...

Afvg continues to work around the clock, those folks that work with us that fought beside us our interpreters, we continue to try to evacuate them and in the process, its a bit slower now than it was in august and we were trying to get people onto hkhia and a pattern of being able to feed people families nutritious meals and provide for them, continue with their education. we zoom calls with them and educate them as they wait for their extraction. and we advocate for them through the department ...

There wasnt a reasonable expectation that it was going to follow us home and we see now that al qaeda is back in kabul. the intelligence community is crystal clear that they fully intend to attack us again and developing the capability to do so and i for one dont want to wait until there is another san bernardino or another 9/11. we need to take action now. lets look at where we are a year later. our allies are being hunted down as we speak. the cousin of one of my interpreters that we did get o...