Hundreds of thousands of Afghans who assisted the U.S. military now face repatriation and possible retaliation by the Taliban, as the Trump administration rolls back support programs and shutters the State Department office tasked with Afghan resettlement, The Washington Post reports. 

Two executive orders have halted refugee processing and U.S.-funded flights, while the Office of the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts has been largely dismantled.

“I am not insisting that I must be taken to the United States. My only wish is, please do not hand me over to my executioners,” said one Afghan in the UAE.

Internal cables reveal that the UAE has begun deporting evacuees after learning they wouldn’t be granted U.S. visas. “Wherever they end up, they end up,” one U.S. official said.

The White House insists the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program continues at 900 decisions per week, but budget documents show deep cuts ahead.

“We are in this situation because of the U.S.,” said one Afghan widow, whose husband was tortured and killed by the Taliban.

Others, like Nasima — who lost her young son to gunfire while awaiting asylum — say they are devastated by the abandonment. “We have sacrificed our everything,” she said.

Read more at The Washington Post.