An Afghan interpreter working with the 101st Airborne Division Alpha Battery 1-320th displays a patch showing the Afghan and U.S. flags at Combat Outpost Nolen on the outskirts of Arghandab valley's Jellawar town on Sept. 9, 2010.

Of all the cruel and unjustifiable moves the Trump administration has made on immigration, this is one of the worst: The government is ending deportation protections for people who assisted U.S. troops in Afghanistan. It’s a broken promise of the vilest kind, and one that the rest of the world — our allies as well as our enemies — will not soon forget.

Over the nearly two decades U.S. soldiers spent in Afghanistan trying to establish and stabilize a civilian government there, many Afghan nationals risked their lives to protect our military and assist our mission. They worked as guides and translators, as administrators and police, as drivers and service workers.

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And when our military pulled out of the country and the Taliban militants reclaimed control, we left countless........

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