‘All the doors are closed to Afghans’: from fall of Kabul to limbo in Mexico

Thousands of Afghans are believed to have made their way to Mexico hoping to claiming asylum in the US. Most are still there

When the Taliban stormed Kabul, Wali Modaqiq, 54, began calling every American, Briton and European with whom he had worked on environmental projects, pleading for help to evacuate him and his family.

The message I received back was: You're not our direct employee, so we cannot help you,'" he said. But I brought them in, I took them around, I helped them work in Afghanistan." He says environmental activism with foreign conservationists had made him an enemy of the Taliban.