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Stop the flight.
The United States is preparing to put more than 150 detained Afghans on a charter flight out of Louisiana, bound for Pakistan, with onward transport to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Their removal orders do not name Pakistan. Many are relatives of people who served alongside U.S. troops. Call and write Congress, then the White House. It takes a few minutes, and the tool below does the dialing and the routing for you.
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What is happening
A flight to a country no judge approved.
Since mid-October, Afghans held in ICE detention across at least 11 states have been told they are being moved for removal. Reporting and sworn court filings now describe a special charter out of Alexandria, Louisiana, as soon as the first days of November.
Pakistan is not on the orders
In an October 30 sworn declaration in federal court, an ICE officer said the charter's final destination is Pakistan, with further transport onward to Afghanistan. The removal order in that case names Afghanistan. No immigration judge approved removal to Pakistan.
Who is on board
Afghans who came to the United States after the Taliban takeover, including relatives of people who served alongside U.S. troops. Detainees have reported being told different destinations, and none of those AfghanEvac is tracking had been shown travel documents.
What happens in Pakistan
Pakistan has been expelling Afghans back across the border for two years. Delivery to Pakistan is, in practice, delivery to the Taliban, the regime that hunts the people who stood with us.
How did tens of thousands of U.S.-linked Afghans end up in Pakistan, what did the two governments agree to in 2023, and why did it collapse? Read our explainer on Afghan allies in Pakistan. AfghanEvac is also collecting reports from attorneys and advocates on detentions and transfers; if you represent someone affected, see our briefing for attorneys and advocates.
Statement · October 30, 2026
“Sending someone there is not a deportation. It is a sentence.”
America is about to put Afghans on a plane to the Taliban, and the administration is doing it the week the country goes to vote, hoping no one is watching.
The Taliban is a regime that jails, tortures, and kills the people it considers its enemies. It has hunted down former soldiers, police officers, and the families of anyone who worked with the United States. It has erased women and girls from public life. Sending someone there is not a deportation. It is a sentence.
Every American should be able to agree on one thing: we do not deliver people into the hands of a murderous regime.
That principle is older than any immigration law. It is part of who we have always said we are. The country that welcomed Lafayette and Mohammed Kahn, the country that built the Statue of Liberty, does not quietly fly frightened men to the Taliban and hope no one asks questions.
Many of the Afghans facing removal fled after the fall of Kabul. Some are the brothers and sons of men who served alongside U.S. forces, families the Taliban already has every reason to target. Whatever path brought them here, the danger waiting for them is the same.
And this administration is doing it in the dark. Men are detained at routine check-ins they showed up for voluntarily. Their phones go dead. Their commissary accounts are closed. They are moved in the middle of the night. Lawyers learn where their clients are going from government court filings. The government won’t say where these flights land, because it knows what happens to the people on them when they do.
A government confident in what it is doing does not hide it. This administration is hiding it because it knows the American people would not stand for it.
There is a remedy, and it is sitting in front of Congress right now. The bipartisan Afghanistan TPS Act (H.R. 9899 and S. 5308) would protect Afghans already in the United States from being sent back into Taliban hands, with full biometric and national security vetting, through July 1, 2029. It has Republican and Democratic leads in both chambers. Temporary Protected Status exists for exactly this moment: when sending people home would put their lives in danger.
On November 9 through 11, veterans, diplomats, aid workers, attorneys, and Afghan allies will come to Capitol Hill for the AfghanEvac Mission Partners Fly-In. On Veterans Day, we will walk together from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol. We are asking every member of Congress one question: will you stand up before the plane takes off?
America is at its best when it is a refuge, not an accomplice. We intend to hold this country to its best.
Media inquiries: press@afghanevac.org. More statements at press.afghanevac.org.
Where Americans stand
Voters already rejected this.
A bipartisan national survey this summer asked voters about exactly this kind of removal.
Lake Research Partners and The Tarrance Group for AfghanEvac and HIAS, 1,000 likely 2026 voters, July 23 to 30, 2026. Full results.
What stops this for good
Congress can act on November 9.
The bipartisan Afghanistan TPS Act (H.R. 9899 / S. 5308) would protect Afghans already in the United States from being sent back into Taliban hands, with full vetting, through July 1, 2029. The House discharge petition to force a vote ripens November 9, the first day Congress is back. It needs 218 signatures.
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AfghanEvac is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization leading the fight to keep America’s promise to our Afghan mission partners and the Americans with whom they served. AfghanEvac is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Media: press@afghanevac.org. Questions: contact@afghanevac.org. Page updated November 1, 2026.