President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend the US refugee program could leave at least 2,000 Afghans in limbo who had previously been approved to resettle in the US, a major Afghan advocacy organization is warning.

The order “risks abandoning thousands of Afghan wartime allies” who worked with Americans before the Taliban takeover, the head of a resettlement group said.

Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active-duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.

Local refugee and migrant assistance groups are calling on President Trump to change his executive order that suspends the entry of refugees into the U.S. Specifically, the Vermont Afghan Alliance is calling the order ‘cruel’ and a ‘betrayal’ to Afghans who supported the U.

An executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend refugee admissions has magnified the fears of one Afghan American soldier who has long been worried about the fate of his sister in Kabul.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that called the US Refugee Admissions Program detrimental to US interests and suspending it beginning on January 27