Deportation of Afghan immigrants from the United States

The immigration officials suspended (cancelled) his deportation, which allowed him to remain in the United States with his American family.

These people were first admitted to neighboring Pakistan and Iran as refugees escaping from: (1) totalitarianism and genocide orchestrated by the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA); and (2) political repression of the mujahideen, who were engaged in a guerrilla warfare with the PDPA.

[12] Each year (from 1980 onward) groups of Afghan refugee families lawfully entered the United States.

[13] These immigrant families were firmly resettled all across the United States but mainly in and around New York City followed by in California, Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Florida and elsewhere.

[17] These people were Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, including Afghan-Americans who have been convicted of a common crime in the United States.