Congress Nixes Visas for Afghan Partners

New York Times: “Last year, Mr. Trump froze the special visa program that gave… Afghans who worked with the American government over two decades of war with the Taliban a path to legal status in the United States. The president did so hours after an Afghan national who had fought in a paramilitary group linked to the C.I.A. and entered the United States on a two-year grant of parole in 2021 shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., one of them fatally.”

“Then on Tuesday, Congress quietly closed the door to the program altogether when it cleared a spending package that authorized no new visas for it.”