{"id":86763,"date":"2025-12-13T13:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T13:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86763\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T13:51:19","slug":"concern-among-afghan-immigrants-dec-12-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86763\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern among Afghan immigrants (Dec. 12, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s show: President Donald Trump has frozen the processing of immigration requests for all Afghans pending a review of security and vetting procedures. Now, many Afghan immigrants, including many in Houston who came to the United States through the appropriate legal channels, are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/politics\/immigration\/2025\/12\/11\/538334\/trump-immigration-afghans-houston-ice-national-guard\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">growing increasingly worried<\/a> about their status.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>And we learn about a cold front arriving late Saturday that could bring Houston\u2019s first freeze of the season early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: From a State Department policy change involving fonts, to the debut of the world&#8217;s longest commercial flight route, to In-N-Out Burger doing away with 2025&#8217;s most annoying outburst, our non-experts consider <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/topics\/good-bad-ugly\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly<\/a> of the week.<\/p>\n<p>And we meet Angolan-born, Houston-based singer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vivalda_ndula_oficial\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vivalda Ndula<\/a>, who blends traditional rhythms with Afro-contemporary sounds. But her music does more than entertain. It also confronts inequality, celebrates resilience, and uplifts unheard voices.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday\u2019s show: President Donald Trump has frozen the processing of immigration requests for all Afghans pending a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[41491,35474,41492,4936,4977,56,3747,58,4978,57,41493,41494,66,278,223,4979,7895,41495,172],"class_list":["post-86763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-afghan-refugees","tag-afghanistan","tag-angola","tag-cold-front","tag-full-show","tag-houston","tag-houston-chronicle","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-immigation","tag-justin-ballard","tag-local","tag-music","tag-news","tag-shows","tag-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","tag-vivalda-ndula","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}