Four countries, six years, 7,000 miles: one Afghan family's journey to the US

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Zahra and the rest of this new Afghan community are set to contribute nearly $200m in taxes and $1.4bn to the American economy in their first year of work, according to new data released this month by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
53% : They tried the trip a second time and finally made it through to Tehran where the next leg of the sojourn awaited: Ankara, Turkey.
49% : Afghans on humanitarian parole must seek other paths of obtaining permanent immigration status, such as asylum, at the end of the two-year period in question.
49% : "This year, even though the [Joe Biden White House] set an ambitious goal of [admitting] 125,000 [refugees], they're only going to admit a fraction of that amount and what that shows is that refugee admission is broken and needs a lot more work so that ambition can be reality," the IRC's senior director of resettlement, asylum and integration policy, JC Hendrickson, told the Guardian.
48% : Zahra, 21, and her family are among the newly arrived Afghans, relocating from the cities of Kabul and Nimroz to Yazd and Tehran in Iran, then to Ankara, Turkey, before finally resettling in Denver, Colorado, in February.
46% : That year, Zahra, her mother and her siblings - the youngest of whom was two at the time - journeyed from Kabul to Nimroz, a south-west Afghan province that lies east of Iran.
44% : "They would just throw families in each truck," Zahra said, recalling how she was separated from her family for nearly two weeks on the way from Iran to Turkey before finally reuniting with them in Ankara in March 2016.
24% : "It's not unusual for an application to take that long, especially considering that she applied during [Donald Trump's presidency] where refugee arrivals were repeatedly cut, where we had things like the travel ban that really damaged the US government's ability to process refugee applications," IRC spokesperson Stanford Prescott told the Guardian.

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