US lawmakers ask Trump to halt Afghan deportations
The Taliban authorities in Kabul also raised concern about the removal plans, Dawn reported, as legislators pressed Washington to stop sending Afghans back.
Lawmakers in the United States have asked the Trump administration to stop the deportation of Afghans, Al Jazeera reported. The request places the removal of Afghan nationals inside a public dispute between Congress and the administration.
The Afghan Taliban also voiced concern over the US deportation plans, Dawn reported, adding the reaction of the authorities in Kabul, who have governed Afghanistan since 2021, to a policy being decided in Washington.
Neither account named the lawmakers who made the request, said how many Afghans face deportation, or set out where those removed would be sent. Both reports rested on statements rather than on removals already carried out.
The two statements come at the same policy from opposite ends. One is addressed from inside the US system to the administration that carries out deportations. The other comes from the government of the country that would receive the people sent back.
Al Jazeera's report was published under the headline that US lawmakers had asked the administration to stop the deportations. Dawn's report carried the Taliban's expression of concern over the plans.
Neither outlet reported a response from the Trump administration to the lawmakers' request or to the Taliban's statement.
How the reports differ
Al Jazeera led with the request from US lawmakers and framed the story from Washington, where the deportation decisions are made. Dawn led with the Taliban's expression of concern, framing the same policy from Kabul. Al Jazeera's published headline carried only the legislators' appeal, while Dawn's carried only the Taliban reaction; neither headline, as published, referred to the other's main statement.
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