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Regan Morris BBC News in San Diego, California BBC Monique Labarre is part of the Battle Buddies, a group of army vets who show support for Afghan refugees at immigration hearings As a journalist in Afghanistan, Abdul says he helped promote American values like democracy and freedom. That work, he said, resulted in him being tortured by the Taliban after …

WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court late Monday stepped in to keep in place protections for nearly 12,000 Afghans that have allowed them to work in the U.S. and be protected from deportation after they were set to expire as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to make more people eligible for removal from the country. The Department of Homeland …