Now that the Taliban controls Afghanistan, the return of refugees, granted temporary protected status in the U.S. under former President Joe Biden, amounts to a death sentence, American veterans of the longest war in U.S. history warn.

“Some of these are our closest partners, people that actually worked with us and for us, that are simply using the TPS program because that was the only option,” Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., a former Army Ranger who fought in Afghanistan, told The Washington Post.

“If they’re sent back to Afghanistan, it would be a death sentence for them.”

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