Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan. Now, refugees across the U.S. are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.

Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021. Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard members last month, which was allegedly carried out by one such Afghan refugee, the federal government has placed a dangerous new target on the community.

In the weeks since the shooting, ICE has combed the Dallas-Forth Worth area. Locals say that the agency has been harassing employers and demanding that they turn over employee schedules in an attempt to capture the refugees. Several refugees have already been detained throughout the country, sparking fear among community members that they could be plucked out of their homes and sent back to Afghanistan at any given moment.

“They’re literally going to be sending these people to certain death,” Zeeshan Hafeez, the community outreach director for DFW Refugee Outreach, a local refugee assistance nonprofit, told me. “The Taliban has kept track of them, and they’re going to wait and watch and see who comes back, and they’re going........

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