In early October, the block reached a deal with afghan government to deport an unlimited number of asylum seekers. Scores of asylum seekers slipped through ahoe into macedonia. The first contingent of deporting hundreds of illegal afghan migrants started on sunday. There are 170 thousand afghan refugees who have registered with the uen in turkey.
The Afghan refugee crisis started long before the US withdrawal. Al Jazeera English correspondent Ali Latifi explains from Kabul.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah with help from Jillian Weinberger, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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