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The Government of Canada is working hard to resettle at least 40,000 Afghan nationals as quickly and safely as possible. Over the past week, 335 government-assisted and privately sponsored Afghan refugees arrived in Canada on 10 commercial flights. They are destined for communities all across Canada, including Calgary, Winnipeg and Sherbrooke. To date, a total of 7,885 Afghan nationals have arrived in Canada.

The Taliban's Al-Hanafi Wardak told Newsweek the group will "be forced to reconsider its foreign policy towards the United States" if Washington doesn't back down.

Partly as a result of US policy, Afghanistan’s economy is expected to contract by 30 percent.

We write to you on behalf of the undersigned organizations, legal services providers, resettlement agencies, law firms, and law school clinics, to express our extreme concern regarding the exclusionary approach the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has adopted towards over 30,000 Afghans who have applied for Humanitarian Parole to the United States.

The administration, says Project ANAR, the Afghan Network for Advocacy and Resources, has stopped approving a specific type of immigration permission, called humanitarian parole, for Afghans trapped inside the country.