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: This is the fourth of five stories from the six-episode KSL podcast "Stranger Becomes Neighbor," which follows the experiences of Afghan refugees in Utah and the people who try to help them.
Bakshi is a former CIA intelligence operations manager and counterterrorism expert. In her 14-year career, she spent four years in Afghanistan. In 2021, she started an organization to ensure that Afghan partners who served on behalf of the United States are supported as they resettle in America. She called it, which means family in Dari. Bakshi met Saleem when her organization hosted an event in Texas.
Though Americans know little about what the National Strike Units did on behalf of U.S. interests, many of the Afghans who are now living in our communities served in these units. Bakshi estimates Saleem is one of more than 10,000 strike unit veterans in the U.S. With their spouses and children, their number totals about 35,000.
"We learned that he was struggling with a lot of stress, anxiety, confusion," Bakshi said. "Even the night before that, he was feeling hopeless, and wasn't sure what his future would look like, and wasn't sure if he wanted to live anymore." In addition to the stress of being separated from family, Saleem's immigration status was uncertain in the U.S. The Zero Unit fighters are eligible for Special Immigrant Visas reserved for Afghans and Iraqis who helped the United States. But these applications can take years to be processed, since they have been mired in backlogs even before the mass evacuation of Afghanistan.
"How would he keep a job, earn an income, and be able to support himself and his family?" Bakshi asked. "He had seen that some of his teammates were already losing jobs, because work permits are getting ready to expire and perhaps employers don't want to take that risk.""Unfortunately, this individual and others like him are still struggling with these feelings of abandonment and hopelessness and uncertainty about their future," she said.
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