{"id":75590,"date":"2025-12-12T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/12\/afghan-asylum-seekers-immigration"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:00:06","slug":"us-agents-increasingly-arresting-afghan-asylum-seekers-lawyers-say-a-huge-chilling-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75590","title":{"rendered":"US agents increasingly arresting Afghan asylum seekers, lawyers say: \u2018A huge chilling effect\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers say people \u2018don\u2019t feel safe to leave their home\u2019 as officials target recent arrivals and those awaiting hearings<\/p>\n<p>Immigration agents appear to be increasingly arresting and detaining Afghan asylum seekers, especially men, who have arrived in the US recently and are awaiting court hearings to decide their cases.<\/p>\n<p>Amir \u2013 an asylum seeker who came to the US via Mexico in 2024 \u2013 was driving home from his English class in Bloomington, Indiana just after noon on Monday, when he was pulled over by an unmarked police vehicle. Minutes later, the asylum seeker from Afghanistan was cuffed and driven to a detention center.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/12\/afghan-asylum-seekers-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers say people \u2018don\u2019t feel safe to leave their home\u2019 as officials target recent arrivals and those awaiting hearingsImmigration agents appear to be increasingly arresting and detaining Afghan asylum seekers, especially men, who have arrived in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,554,1083,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trump-administration","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75591,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75590\/revisions\/75591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}