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Cole Brennan

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Pakistan and Iran cracked down fast once the math flipped. Undocumented labor goes from cheap to threat the minute your own security costs climb. Six million sent back means someone ran the numbers and decided domestic optics beat the diplomatic fallout every time.

'We've never seen in recent history a return movement on this scale,' he underlines, standing in the baking heat in the tented village close to the border. Many returnees have not set foot in Afghanistan for decades; many like Nazia have never been here at all.
'I've never been to Afghanistan': Six million deportees forced to start over under the Talibanbbc.co.uk
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