President Donald Trump’s blizzard of executive orders this week includes a directive suspending the resettlement of refugees in the U.S.

That has placed thousands of people desperate to leave Afghanistan in limbo, including family members of U.S. service members.

Spectrum News One spoke with a paratrooper in the 82^nd Airborne Division in North Carolina who said his sister and her husband are stuck in Afghanistan. Spectrum News One isn’t identifying the paratrooper’s name to protect the safety of his family.

The service member was an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan for nearly three years until all American forces withdrew in 2021. He eventually joined the 82nd Airborne Division.

Because of the soldier’s work for the U.S. military, the safety of his sister and her husband, both doctors, is not assured. For three-plus years they’ve had to move to a different safe house every couple months.

He said they were cleared to leave Afghanistan and were waiting for a flight. But now, because of the suspension of the refugee program, they’ll have to wait longer.

Soon after taking office President Donald Trump suspended the refugee resettlement program for 90 days, putting the paratrooper’s family and thousands of other Afghans in limbo.

“This is a great miscarriage of justice,” said Shawn VanDiver, the president of #AfghanEvanc, which works to get Afghans out of harm’s way.

More than 1,600 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort, and were approved to come to the U.S., before a deadline next week, had their travel plans canceled.

And total, VanDiver said the suspension puts around 10,000 Afghans in limbo.

That includes family members of at least 200 U.S. service members.

“This is a legal immigration pathway which is populated by the most vetted people there have ever been,” VanDiver said. “They’re more vetted than our U.S. military service members, they’re more vetted than police officers and firefighters and public servants across our great country.”

Trump has heavily criticized the Biden Administration for how it withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving people stranded.

Still, some Republicans argue this suspension is needed.

“To step back and say we need to pause this program, take a look at our national security, while we have a genuine crisis at our southern border and our overall immigration system, I think is a safe play,” said (R) Rep. Pat Harrigan of North Carolina.

Not all Republicans agree, arguing Afghans should be exempt from the suspension.

The paratrooper Spectrum News spoke with said his family’s life depends on it.

“We are super worried about them … I’ve been proudly serving this country overseas and here … but at this sensitive time I’m demanding help, and I hope that I get the help I needed from my government.”