(18 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria, Virginia – 7 March 2025
1. Various exteriors of apartment buildings
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria, Virginia – 5 March 2025
2. Afghan refugee Marjila Badakhsh’s hands working at computer
3. Badakhsh at her computer
4. Back of Badakhsh’s computer
5. Badakhsh at her computer
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Marjila Badakhsh, Afghan Refugee / Laid-off Lutheran Social Services employee:
“It’s something very weird, only one policy can change the life of all immigrants."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria, Virginia – 6 March 2025
7. Exterior of the Lutheran Social Services National Capital Area Resource Center
8. Lobby of the Lutheran Social Services National Capital Area Resource Center
9. Lutheran Social Services National Capital Area Resource Center employees and volunteers
10. Pan of donated clothes
11. Supplies for immigrant families at the Lutheran Social Services National Capital Area Resource Center
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria, Virginia – 5 March 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Marjila Badakhsh, Afghan Refugee / Laid-off Lutheran Social Services employee:
“As I knew that the case manager is first person that the refugee is facing while they’re coming to the United States. I said maybe I would be a good person to welcome them in the United States and show them the ways."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria, Virginia – 5 March 2025
13. Badakhsh’s hand working at computer
14. Virginia employment Commission website on Badakhsh’s computer
15. Badakhsh at her computer
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Marjila Badakhsh, Afghan Refugee, Laid-off Lutheran Social Services employee:
“With the last policy, the and the last executive order, we got laid off and the whole department was closed.”
17. Badakhsh setting places for dinner during the holy month of Ramadan
18. Badakhsh making dinner with her roommates before breaking their fast during the month of Ramadan
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Marjila, Afghan Refugee / former Lutheran Social Services National Capital Area employee:
“After three years with one policy, I’m thinking that I’m back to the day that I came to the United States for the first time, and I should start again.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Kabul, Afghanistan – 16 August 2021
20. Mid of people walking around on the tarmac
21. Wide of people walking on the tarmac, UPSOUND gunshots
22. Wide of people walking across airport grounds with US military aircraft in the background
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria, Virginia – 5 March 2025
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Marjila Badakhsh, Afghan Refugee, Laid-off Lutheran Social Services employee:
“I knocked my mom and dad’s door and they woke up and they said, oh, what’s going on? Why you’re looking so worried. I told them that I received the call, and they are saying that they can only evacuate me."
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Marjila, Afghan Refugee / former Lutheran Social Services National Capital Area employee:
"And with ten minutes, we decided and I let them know that yes, I can come. And I left my family behind.”
25. Badakhsh wiping tears ++MUTE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria, Virginia – 3 March 2025
26. Mid of children’s shoes
27. Afghan refugee Rahmani (last name not provided) speaking
28. Rahmani’s hands
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Rahmani (no last name provided), Afghan Refugee:
++SHOT IN SILHOUETTE++
“And the first night when we came to the United States, my caseworker told me that you will receive furniture. These things, these things, these, everything you will receive. But after a few days, he said, our budget is finished. We don’t have anything.”
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