Thousands of people who worked with the US military are now desperate to get out of Afghanistan. We speak with one young man who says the Taliban has hounded him with death threats. He first applied for a Special Immigrant Visa back in 2014. In the past few days, he’s been moving province to province to stay ahead of the Taliban and is now locked in a house in Kabul, afraid to go outside.
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