Amid Deadly Terror Attack In Kabul, Sacramento Families Scramble To Bring Relatives To US

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento concern proprietor Ahmad Samir shared a snapshot of 9 household passports.

“They’re requesting from america if there’s immoderate mode to get retired of Afghanistan,” said Samir.

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They are each members of his household stuck successful Afghanistan, hopeless to permission Taliban-controlled Kabul.

“They are the aforesaid radical they were 20 years ago,” Samir said of the Taliban.

He was successful the archetypal question of Afghan refugees who came to Sacramento with a peculiar migration visa successful 2008.

Now thousands of others person joined him, creating a small Kabul successful Northern California.

“You tin consciousness similar a location here,” helium said.

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Others who unrecorded successful Sacramento person been speaking with hopeless household members who are weighing the hazard of staying and surviving nether Taliban power oregon the information of different onslaught astatine the airdrome successful Kabul.

“They person documentation, but due to the fact that of the unreserved connected the airport, they cannot deliberation of a mode to come,” Mohammad Amini said.

Nonprofits that enactment connected resettlement plans similar the International Rescue Committee accidental there’s nary connection whether these evacuation flights volition continue.

There’s nary program close present to get evacuees disconnected the crushed successful Kabul.

“One of the biggest issues is folks who person worked with the US Embassy oregon US military. They’re not capable to get to the airport, truthful getting these radical retired and getting these radical to information is our biggest interest close now,” said Lisa Welze, elder manager of the IRC.

These evacuees are besides facing different situation erstwhile they bash get to Sacramento: uncovering lodging erstwhile there’s a lodging shortage successful the region. These nonprofits accidental the Caldor Fire and stateless situation are contributing to that.

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The IRC says it created the Soft Landing Fund, which volition straight enactment Afghan exile families who person fled their state to resettle successful Northern California.

Marissa Perlman